How to watch the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the arrival of a new year comes plenty of opportunities to witness a bevy of celestial events that will…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — This year, scientists were able to pull back the curtain on mysteries surrounding figures across history,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Super Heavy rocket booster as tall as a 20-story building reappeared in the skies over South Texas…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of luxury condos, hotels and other buildings in southeast Florida are sinking at a surprising rate,…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the limestone plateau in the United Kingdom’s Mendip Hills is famed for its natural beauty. But around…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up to see the Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial display of the year, on Sunday morning. The…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Charred to a crisp, the hundreds of brittle ancient scrolls would crumble if one were to attempt to unfurl them, and…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a three-word energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.” But his cabinet…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists made a major discovery this year linked to Stonehenge — one of humanity’s biggest mysteries…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Before dinosaurs walked the Earth and tens of millions of years before the first mammals appeared, distant…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration just announced an aggressive target for the US to cut its planet-warming pollution over…
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