A new group of butterflies has been named after the ‘Lord of the Rings’ villain
By Kristen Rogers, CNN A large international team of researchers has identified nine groups of newly described butterflies, and one colorful genus…
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Turkey’s main opposition candidate accuses Russia of election interference
By Mostafa Salem, Anna Chernova and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Turkey’s main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering…
Continue ReadingIslamic Jihad targets Jerusalem for the first time in current conflict as it fires barrage of rockets at Israel
By Elliott Gotkine, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene, Alex Stambaugh and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Palestinian militants launched rockets…
Continue ReadingAstronomers spot largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spotted the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, and it’s 10 times brighter than any known…
Continue ReadingHow did massive prehistoric ‘thunder beasts’ get super big, super fast?
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like…
Continue ReadingMysterious rumblings were recorded in Earth’s stratosphere
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the…
Continue ReadingWildfires raging in parts of Russia have left at least 21 people dead
By Radina Gigova and Laura Paddison, CNN Wildfires raging in Russia’s Ural Mountains killed at least 21 people and hospitalized several others,…
Continue ReadingWhat is carbon capture? Some say it will help save the world, for others it’s a dangerous distraction
By Laura Paddison, CNN The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are…
Continue ReadingSpaceX and startup Vast hope to put the world’s first private space station in orbit
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Vast — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants in the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to use a…
Continue ReadingHow the Voyager probes keep going and going decades after launch
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Voyager probes lifted off weeks apart in 1977, no one expected that the twin spacecraft would…
Continue ReadingHow the Voyager probes keep going and going decades after launch
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Voyager probes lifted off weeks apart in 1977, no one expected that the twin spacecraft would have their missions…
Continue ReadingLasers on Artemis II will share high-definition video of the moon
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the crewed Artemis II mission makes its lunar flyby in late 2024, we’ll be able to see video of the moon like…
Continue ReadingPossible meteorite strikes New Jersey home, authorities say
CNN, KYW By Jackie Wattles and Tina Burnside, CNN What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday.…
Continue ReadingPossible meteorite strikes New Jersey home, authorities say
By Jackie Wattles and Tina Burnside, CNN What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday. The…
Continue ReadingWebb telescope spies evidence of hidden planets around nearby star
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and…
Continue ReadingLoaf-size mission launches to improve hurricane forecasting
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new mission designed to improve hurricane forecasting has launched, just ahead of the June 1 arrival of the 2023 Atlantic…
Continue ReadingSweden summons Iranian ambassador after execution of Swedish-Iranian dual citizen
By Pierre Meilhan, Pauline Lockwood and Heather Chen, CNN Sweden has summoned Iran’s acting ambassador to protest against the execution of…
Continue ReadingScientists used DNA to unlock who wore a 25,000-year-old pendant
By Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the great rewards for any scientist or researcher is the joy of unexpected discovery. It’s the kind of feeling…
Continue ReadingSudan’s warring military factions to meet face-to-face for first time since conflict began
By Tatiana Arias, Eyad Kourdi, Heather Chen, Jorge Engels and Hafsa Khalil, CNN The rival military factions fighting for control in Sudan are to hold…
Continue ReadingA surprising number of drifting sea creatures found living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination…
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