US & World

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. The 57…

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN; photo editing by Laura Oliverio Collapsed buildings, emergency vehicles and tent shelters can be seen in new satellite…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Glaciers around the world are melting at an alarming rate, and are leaving massive pools of water in their wake. The meltwater…

By Eliza Anyangwe, Managing Editor of As Equals Provided you are able to get online or have a mobile phone, the internet, social media platforms,…

By Sen Nguyen, for CNN In 2017, Kyle Quinn enjoyed the anonymity any engineering professor typically would until he became a target of doxxing. Angry…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Neanderthals living 90,000 years ago in a seafront cave, in what’s now Portugal, regularly caught crabs, roasted them on…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it’s the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has observed its smallest cosmic object to date — a previously unknown asteroid about the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN It’s now been half a decade since SpaceX turned heads around the world with its decision to launch Elon Musk’s…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Look in the night sky this weekend for February’s full moon, where it can be glimpsed around the world. It will reach…

By Jonny Hallam and Emma Tucker, CNN At least 22 people have died in connection with widespread forest fires in south-central Chile, according to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the golden age of space exploration we live in, cosmic revelations seem to occur more frequently than ever before. This…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the past year, a tiny helicopter flew on Mars, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid and the James Webb Space…

By Laura Paddison, Krystina Shveda and Jhasua Razo, CNN Even as the world smashes through one all-time heat record after another and speeds towards…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much as eight cars each roamed in what’s now northern Europe.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Vikings crossed the North Sea to reach Britain in the ninth century AD, they brought their dogs and horses with…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The lackluster explosion,…