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By Laura Paddison, CNN Dangerous, record-breaking heat waves are set to increase as the climate crisis intensifies, and they will be particularly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN A Japanese lunar lander, carrying a rover developed in the United Arab Emirates, attempted to find its footing on the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When quakes rumbled on Mars and a meteorite smacked into the red planet during the past four years, NASA’s InSight…

By Eyad Kourdi, Pierre Meilhan, Celina Tebor and Heather Chen, CNN Canada has told its citizens in Sudan that evacuations are “not possible at…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Rocket launches are like opening a box of chocolates, only riskier — you never know what you’re going to get. And…

By Martha Shade, CNN It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out — but don’t click…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN After the first test launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — ended in an…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN After no major annual meteor showers for months, the Lyrids are here to end the drought. Known as one of the oldest-recorded…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Droughts, floods and record low ice levels — from the top of the world’s mountains to the depths of the ocean, the…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN There is something in the air today. Maybe you’ve noticed. April 20, or 4/20, is known as “Weed Day” in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Northern elephant seals might be masters of multitasking in the animal kingdom because they’ve learned how to sleep…

By Katie Hunt, CNN One Friday afternoon, not long after Oregon made cannabis legal in 2015, some lab researchers in the state embarked on a quirky…

By Jack Guy, CNN The Earth’s ice sheets lost enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high, according to new research.…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launchpad in South Texas…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launch pad on the coast of South Texas…

By Heather Chen, CNN A contest planned for children in New Zealand to hunt and kill feral cats as part of a drive to protect native species has been…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX is once again gearing up for the inaugural test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever created and the…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in bogs throughout eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers, often in…

By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA satellite that observed solar flares and helped scientists understand the sun’s powerful bursts…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN A hybrid solar eclipse — the first of its kind in nearly 10 years — is on the way. During this rare celestial event, the…

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued by Australian maritime authorities from a tiny island after being…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The Vikings disappeared abruptly from Greenland in the mid-15th century, some 400 years after arriving there. Why they abandoned a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A brilliant starburst feature shines in the latest image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The space observatory…

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX is now targeting Thursday for the next attempt to get Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, off the ground.…