
Black hole collision confirms decades-old predictions by Einstein and Hawking
By Jacopo Prisco (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Climate scientists are declaring victory after the Trump administration dissolved a working group of five…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming…
Continue ReadingCNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN A vaccine used to treat chlamydia in Australia’s koala population has been approved for rollout, in a world-first project.…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat. As climate…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Many sky-gazers around the world will get the chance to see a dazzling celestial display this weekend — a…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to suspend more than 100 staffers who signed a…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists’…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Offshore wind developers and the attorneys general of Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the federal government…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli (CNN) — The Shroud of Turin — a 14-foot-long linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man — has captivated people for…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN Glow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will move the military’s US Space Command to…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A beach in Melbourne, Australia has been bathed in a “ethereal glow” at nighttime this week thanks to…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — More than 85 veteran climate scientists have pushed back against a Trump administration report downplaying the…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN A powerful solar storm is expected to reach Earth on Monday evening, potentially triggering a display of northern lights…
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — When Hurricane Erin explosively intensified in the Atlantic Ocean last week, the alarming part wasn’t solely…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about…
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters (CNN) — Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the most extreme dinosaurs on…
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Jordan, CNN If you follow the Mississippi River to where it meets the ocean, you will be in Plaquemines, Louisiana’s southernmost…
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