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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among 866…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key…

By Ella Nilsen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The environmental group targeted by the Justice Department over a federal grant is suing a bank…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Each time a robotic explorer launches from Earth, it faces innumerable challenges — any of which could cut…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A striking new visualization made by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfurls like a flower blooming in the…

By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Starship spacecraft, the upper portion of the most powerful launch system ever…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based startup that on Sunday became only the second private-sector company to…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact. With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is standing down from the eighth uncrewed test flight of its gargantuan Starship megarocket. The mission…

By Elizabeth McBride, CNN (CNN) — In broad daylight, law enforcement officers raid a warehouse on the outskirts of the city of Sukhumi in…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Leonardo da Vinci excelled in the fields of art and science, but the Italian polymath was also a highly skilled…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Federal regulators have cleared the way for SpaceX to launch another test flight after its Starship spacecraft…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago,…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will…

By the Associated Press MANDAN, North Dakota (AP) — An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various…

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing a “dramatic…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully…

By Ella Nilsen and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump swept into office with a three-word energy policy: Drill baby drill. In…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Runes, the oldest form of writing in Scandinavia, are the result of what happened when one community met…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Some House Democratic lawmakers are raising “deep alarm” over Department of Government Efficiency’s…

By Ella Nilsen and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A massive chunk of a Blue Origin rocket’s nose cone washed up on the shore of a Bahamian island near a tourist…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA confirmed Thursday that the space agency may have sidestepped the sweeping layoffs it was expected to…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Large reserves of white hydrogen may exist within mountain ranges, according to a new study, raising hopes this…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive…