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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Terrain ahead. Pull up!” It’s a command that should only be heard in a disaster movie or flight simulator. But pilots and aviation experts say such warnings have been increasingly sparking alarm in cockpits as bogus signals from global positioning satellites hit commercial flights. The disruption of GPS signals

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted interstellar space — a move that could buy time for an ambitious attempt to extend the probe’s impressive lifespan. NASA sent a command on April 17 to deactivate the spacecraft’s Low-energy

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Six of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies are on track to make almost $3,000 in profits every single second this year, according to a new report, as households across the world grapple with soaring energy prices and inflation, which are driving a cost-of-living crisis. Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips,

By Stefano Pozzebon, Avery Schmitz, Abigail Watts, Jhasua Razo, CNN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (CNN) — It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories to be reduced to smoke and ash. Claudia Matamala, 34, broke down in tears recounting how flames engulfed her parents’ home in the port town of Lirquén in central Chile, where she

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including seven that had never been detected before on the red planet. These carbon-containing compounds are the same building blocks that enabled life to emerge on Earth. The results, published Tuesday in the

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Congressmembers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to reject the White House’s proposal to slash NASA’s 2027 budget by nearly a quarter. The pushback came as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Wednesday, during a hearing largely focused

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Like the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Gibraltar, which lies between the southern tip of Europe and the northwestern tip of Africa, holds a history of shipping and conflict in its waters. A lot of the archaeological evidence for this sits to the east of the strait, in

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — After a more than three-month meteor shower drought, you can finally look to the skies again for a cosmic display. The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak, or reach its maximum activity, on Wednesday around 4 p.m. ET, during daylight hours for much of North America, according to

By Antoinette Radford, Billy Stockwell, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. Satellite images are giving an insight into destruction in the region, including to the fragile biodiversity of

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project is located, when he suddenly noticed the chimps fall silent. Several began grimacing, a facial

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and leaving behind a telltale sign: a flat band of land, outlining the former ocean — similar to the ring left behind in a drained bathtub. If

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf lies an ecological wonder. The highly contested Strait of Hormuz is home to dolphins and the most diverse coral population in the region, an underwater world that scientists say could be in jeopardy as conflict swirls around it. Despite

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in tumult, took questions Thursday for the first time since their return. The crew — including NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut

CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM | @ASTRO_CHRISTINA By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in tumult, took questions Thursday for the first time since their return. The crew — including NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in tumult, took questions Thursday for the first time since their return. The crew — including NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. It had long been known that the playwright owned a house in the Blackfriars, a 13th-century Dominican friary, and it was thought to