
How to see the full moon and planets this weekend
By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers can catch a glimpse of the full moon at its peak illumination this week. August’s full moon, also called…
Continue ReadingBy Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers can catch a glimpse of the full moon at its peak illumination this week. August’s full moon, also called…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Energy Sec. Chris Wright said Tuesday night the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the first private company to successfully land upright on the moon, is set to make another…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Astronaut Butch Wilmore is retiring from NASA less than five months after he returned from a troubled test…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Research vessel Blue Heron trawls the Great Lakes, gathering data from the water. The floating laboratory’s…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The humble modern-day potato, first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, got its start in the Andes mountains…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have used cutting edge techniques to reveal new information about the intricate tattoos of a woman that…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s capital Tehran could be weeks away from “day zero,” experts say — the day when taps run dry for…
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, archaeologists have used advanced scientific techniques on 4,000-year-old dental plaque to…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists are facing a “race against time” to explore the wreck of an English warship that sank in a…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg.…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Archaeologists working at a site in Spain say they have uncovered evidence of what may have been a synagogue used by a hitherto…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A first-of-its-kind satellite has launched to track nearly imperceptible changes on Earth’s surface, an…
Continue ReadingBy Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers may get a good chance to see fireballs streak across the night sky this week. Two meteor showers — the…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration fired the last of the US climate negotiators earlier this month, helping…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb.…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a…
Continue ReadingBy Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — During the first week of July, the popular travel center and gas station chain Buc-ee’s opened its largest…
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — What struck Scott Bennett most were the razor clams. The long saltwater clams, resembling old-fashioned razors,…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The soupy, smothering extreme heat that has scorched parts of the Northern Hemisphere this summer takes a hard…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s highest court said polluting countries may be in breach of international law if they do not…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a proposal to reverse a landmark scientific finding…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval knight, buried under a shuttered ice cream parlor in the…
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