Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ingredients
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key…
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Clean energy group sues Trump admin for freezing billions in funds Congress passed into law
By Ella Nilsen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The environmental group targeted by the Justice Department over a federal grant is suing a bank…
Continue ReadingNASA delays launch of newest space telescope to search for life’s key ingredients
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way,…
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Two moon missions touched down on the lunar surface. How they unfolded was a stark contrast
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Each time a robotic explorer launches from Earth, it faces innumerable challenges — any of which could cut…
Continue ReadingNarwhals may be using their tusks to play, new study finds
By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate…
Continue ReadingLying sideways on the moon, the Athena lander is declared dead
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the…
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A striking new visualization looks like a flower in bloom but tells an alarming story about what’s happening to the planet
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A striking new visualization made by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfurls like a flower blooming in the…
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SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic
CNN By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Starship spacecraft, the upper portion of the most powerful launch system…
Continue Reading SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic
By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Starship spacecraft, the upper portion of the most powerful launch system ever…
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Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander is on the moon’s surface but its status is unclear
By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking…
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Trump’s Canadian tariffs include lumber. He is pushing to cut down American trees instead.
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of…
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an…
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Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient…
Continue ReadingFirefly shares video of Blue Ghost’s nail-biting descent to the lunar surface
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based startup that on Sunday became only the second private-sector company to…
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A tiny island country is selling citizenship for $105,000 to save itself from rising seas
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours…
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World’s biggest iceberg runs aground off South Georgia
By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The biggest iceberg in the world, named A23a, appears to have run aground after drifting around the Southern Ocean…
Continue ReadingScientists created a ‘woolly mouse’ with mammoth traits. Is it a step toward bringing back the extinct giant?
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…
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SpaceX’s Starship: The most powerful rocket ever built calls off first flight attempt since explosive mishap
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is standing down from the eighth uncrewed test flight of its gargantuan Starship megarocket. The mission…
Continue ReadingKeep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy
By Elizabeth McBride, CNN (CNN) — In broad daylight, law enforcement officers raid a warehouse on the outskirts of the city of Sukhumi in…
Continue ReadingFirefly’s Blue Ghost lander successfully touches down on the moon
By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the…
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