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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise. Since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As Artemis II — NASA’s mission that will send four astronauts to circumnavigate the moon as soon as next year — draws closer, a new study is revealing how well its Orion spacecraft will protect the crew. The findings are based off data from Artemis I, a 25-day journey

CNN By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched to the International Space Station in June on the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, they were supposed to return to Earth roughly a week later, nearly five months before the US presidential election. But after the space agency

By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched to the International Space Station in June on the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, they were supposed to return to Earth roughly a week later, nearly five months before the US presidential election. But after the space agency deemed

CNN By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — With its long, ridged horns and muscular build, the giant sable antelope is a majestic sight — and a rare one at that. This particular antelope, endemic only to Angola, in southwest Africa, is critically endangered, with a population of just a few hundred. While its situation is

By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — With its long, ridged horns and muscular build, the giant sable antelope is a majestic sight — and a rare one at that. This particular antelope, endemic only to Angola, in southwest Africa, is critically endangered, with a population of just a few hundred. While its situation is still

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new analysis by physicists based in China and France suggests the artist had a deep, intuitive understanding

By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The bustling city of Shanghai marks national celebrations with world-famous light shows, illuminating its skyscrapers with dazzling colors, like beacons of Chinese innovation. It is here that scientists and engineers work around the clock to pursue the next big thing in global tech, from 6G internet

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the submerged lizard crouches on a river rock, a small air bubble atop its head expanding like a balloon

By Issy Ronald and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in hieroglyphics. The complex consisted of warehouses to store weapons and food, as well as barracks to

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers around the world were able to glimpse a partial lunar eclipse while September’s full harvest moon shone brightly Tuesday night. The moon peaked at its fullest at 10:35 p.m. ET Tuesday, but will appear full through Thursday morning, according to NASA. If you viewed the moon on Tuesday

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from billions of miles away. When Voyager 1 lifted off to space on September 5, 1977, no one

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades. With nearly half of the country’s population facing the risk of acute hunger, “we are targeting to cull 200 elephants,” Tinashe Farawo, a spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority,

By Ella Nilsen and CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir Becker, Minnesota (CNN) — The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant tower over gleaming solar panels that stretch across thousands of acres of farmland. The polluting coal plant is on its way out, scheduled for retirement in the next five years. It’s generated

CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — When you think deeply about pizza — and who doesn’t — do you think of the frozen food aisle of the grocery store? The delivery guy who was supposed to be there in 30 minutes? Or do you envision Naples, pizza’s ancestral home? Surely Italy

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home, capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts landed off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, at 3:37 a.m. ET

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Some chapters of human history are more poignant to revisit than others. The Battle of Waterloo ended a 23-year war, but thousands were killed on June 18, 1815, when allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and his forces south

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious vibration that shook the planet for nine days. Over the past year, dozens of scientists across the world have been trying to

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean. The analysis also suggested that inhabitants of the island, which lies about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) from

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is beginning its fifth day in orbit, having marked a few record-setting milestones on a historic journey — including the world’s first commercial spacewalk. Conducting a spacewalk is nothing new. NASA has been carrying out the endeavors in outer space since 1965, when the Gemini