How to see February’s full snow moon
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Look in the night sky this weekend for February’s full moon, where it can be glimpsed around the world. It will reach…
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Chile wildfires leave at least 22 people dead, officials say
By Jonny Hallam and Emma Tucker, CNN At least 22 people have died in connection with widespread forest fires in south-central Chile, according to…
Continue ReadingCosmic seaplanes and self-growing bricks could help us explore other worlds
By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the golden age of space exploration we live in, cosmic revelations seem to occur more frequently than ever before. This…
Continue ReadingSci-fi ideas that could change the future of space exploration
By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the past year, a tiny helicopter flew on Mars, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid and the James Webb Space…
Continue ReadingExtreme cold snaps: Why temperatures still plummet to dangerous levels even as the planet warms
By Laura Paddison, Krystina Shveda and Jhasua Razo, CNN Even as the world smashes through one all-time heat record after another and speeds towards…
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Continue ReadingA 319-million-year-old brain has been discovered. It could be the oldest of its kind
By Amarachi Orie, CNN A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a…
Continue ReadingNeanderthals hunted massive elephants that once roamed northern Europe
By Katie Hunt, CNN Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much as eight cars each roamed in what’s now northern Europe.…
Continue ReadingVikings brought their animals with them to Britain over 1,000 years ago
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Vikings crossed the North Sea to reach Britain in the ninth century AD, they brought their dogs and horses with…
Continue ReadingSupernova reveals rare pair of stars believed to be one of only about 10 like it in the Milky Way
By Ashley Strickland, CNN An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The lackluster explosion,…
Continue ReadingGreen comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…
Continue ReadingGreen comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…
Continue ReadingScientists plot the resurrection of a bird that’s been extinct since the 17th century
By Katie Hunt, CNN No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of…
Continue ReadingA dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected
By Christian Edwards, CNN The planet could cross critical global warming thresholds sooner than previous models have predicted, even with concerted…
Continue ReadingMeet the man who has transformed our understanding of evolution
By Katie Hunt, CNN On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder,…
Continue ReadingNASA orbiter captures image of a bear’s face on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back. A camera aboard…
Continue ReadingCNN Exclusive: Inside the secretive process to select the first astronauts for NASA’s next moon mission
By Kristin Fisher, CNN Sometime this spring, NASA will make one of the biggest announcements in its history when it names the initial four-person…
Continue ReadingFacing the extremes as an Arctic photographer
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Arctic was once a surprisingly warm place — and a haven for unusual creatures. About 56 million years ago, Earth…
Continue ReadingFive Russian men fleeing military conscription have been living at a South Korean airport for months
CNN By Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have…
Continue ReadingStowaway gecko survives 3,000-mile voyage from Egypt to Manchester in a box of strawberries
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A globe-trotting gecko has accidentally made the trip from Egypt to England after hitching a ride in a container of strawberries.…
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