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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is taking…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hunters wiped out thylacines, commonly known as Tasmanian tigers, in Australia nearly a century ago. But a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive observatory that scientists have called a “discovery machine” has launched toward the cosmos,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — During a visit to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory three years ago, I stepped into a blinding white room.…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Living in the shadow of the world’s spectacular, ice-capped mountains has always carried dangers, but the…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The climate pattern that drives El Niño is becoming more erratic as the planet warms, and El Niño itself is…

By Amen Galinato, CNN (CNN) — August’s full sturgeon moon will align with a partial lunar eclipse, producing a stunning cosmic sight for…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Tuesday unveiled plans to construct a massive, $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana, where the company…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last week the Trump administration announced major cuts to the water Arizona, California and Nevada can take…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In February 1998, almost a year’s worth of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles, as a series of powerful Pacific…

By Jackie Wattles, Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — The anticipated launch of China’s robotic Chang’e-7 mission, designed to scour the moon’s…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the second week in a row, Hawaii is in the crosshairs of an intensifying tropical storm. As of 5 a.m. ET,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Arizona, California and Nevada will be forced to make deep cuts to the water they draw from the imperiled…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A 400-year-old grave held the body of a young woman, the rusted blade of a sickle over her throat and a padlock…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mars has two tiny moons that lack a confirmed origin story for how they came to orbit the red planet — but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A satellite called LINK that recently launched to boost the orbit of a falling space observatory won’t be…

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images from a NASA satellite orbiting the moon reveal a fresh, 60-foot-wide crater formed…