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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Ice cream, mascarpone and milk-washed cocktails may sound like simple pleasures — but the ones served at a…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Some 15,000 NASA employees were sent home this week as a government shutdown began, halting work across much of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of a late September morning, a container ship called the Istanbul Bridge set sail from China,…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth…

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has called for pressure to be placed on governments to protect the environment as he stressed…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — While the Trump administration wages war against clean energy, it is now vowing to lease millions of acres of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance…

By Amanda Schupak (CNN) — What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The discovery of a sunken port off the coast of Egypt may offer a puzzle piece in the longstanding search for…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is…

By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In a consequential move for the global climate, China committed Wednesday to reduce its…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A new interactive map and groundbreaking database allows people in the world’s largest metropolitan areas to…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Endangered leopard sharks have been observed mating in the wild for the first time, with scientists witnessing a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Many parts of world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people — selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants — who will join the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful…

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers should get ready for a full day of celestial events on Sunday, including a partial solar eclipse in parts…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Ever wondered whether painting a cow with zebra stripes might reduce the number of fly bites it gets, or which pizza…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first…

By Issy Ronald, CNN Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The global water cycle has become “increasingly erratic and extreme” with wild swings between droughts and…

By Taylor Nicioli A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and…