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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Under the feet of millions of New Yorkers, a species of ant — originally not found anywhere else in North…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has…

By Amy Gunia, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In between the speedboats, luxury yachts, and wooden fishing boats moored in a Hong Kong marina, a…

By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As the need for effective global climate action becomes ever more urgent,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The storm that sank the “Bayesian,” a luxury yacht anchored off the Sicily coast, was sudden, violent and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Seven fluffy white Chilean flamingo chicks are on display at a zoo in southwest England for the first time since…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — About 20% of Sweden’s brown bear population could be killed this hunting season after licenses were issued for…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — In the paddy fields and around the ponds of central China, a common species of orb-weaving spider builds new webs…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022.…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Two long-horned bees balancing on a flower, a fossilized dinosaur bone viewed through a microscope and a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The European Space Agency’s Juice mission made two historic firsts this week on its long journey to study…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — When billionaire Jared Isaacman self-funded a mission to orbit Earth in 2021, the project was billed as a…

By Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — August continues to be an exciting month for sky-gazers. Closely following the peak of the Perseid meteor shower…

By Ella Nilsen and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Long lines have been forming at gas stations in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, amid fuel…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When archaeologists sift through layers of dirt to tell stories of the past, sometimes their discoveries…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For more than 100 years, the otherworldly wreck of a British warship sat lost on the seabed, covered in barnacles…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with…

By Ella Nilsen and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Two years after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law was signed, millions of Americans…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Greece’s worst wildfire of the year has ripped through the Attica region toward the capital Athens at…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For months, a gargantuan iceberg has been slowly spinning in one spot in the Southern Ocean — and it could…

By Jackie Wattles, Kristin Fisher and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — Two NASA astronauts who have had their mission to the International Space…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, was likely…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For six months in 1181, a dying star left a mark in the night sky. The striking object appeared as bright as…

By Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — No, it’s not your imagination — summers in the US really are getting hotter. And longer.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Data from a retired NASA mission has revealed evidence of an underground reservoir of water deep beneath the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Spiders have a reputation for giving some humans a fright, but a team of scientists has flipped the script to…