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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A newly discovered black hole has been hiding in a cluster containing thousands of stars in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The black hole is 160,000 light-years away from Earth, and it’s 11 times the mass of our sun. Astronomers found it by using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large

By Megan Marples, CNN A species of dinosaur has been discovered decades after its bones were unearthed, according to a new study. Scientists have named the ancient reptile Brighstoneus simmondsi, believed to be from the Lower Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago. The genus Brighstoneous was named after Brighstone, an English town close to

By Ivana Kottasová, Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy and Ingrid Formanek, CNN Wednesday was big day at the COP26 climate summit, with the first draft of an overarching agreement released. The draft is a sort of a wish list put together by the COP presidency and its final version will be negotiated between national delegates over

By Sherry Liang, CNN While you’re rummaging through cabinets and crevices trying to find your cat’s new favorite hiding spot, cats may be keeping mental tabs on you, too. A new study out of Japan found that a stationary cat can track its owner’s location using audio cues — specifically, the owner’s voice. Saho Takagi,

By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN The US and China surprised the COP26 climate summit on Wednesday when representatives of the countries announced an agreement to ramp up their climate ambitions, just days before the end of the conference in Glasgow. “There is more agreement between the US and China than divergence, making it

By Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek, Angela Dewan, Rachel Ramirez and Ella Nilsen, CNN It was gender and science innovation day at COP26 on Tuesday, but most of the focus was on countries wrangling over language around global warming limits and who will pay for the impacts of the climate crisis. A picture of the countries

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The ripples created by massive cosmic collisions have reached Earth after traveling across the universe for billions of years. Scientists have detected the largest number of these gravitational waves since the cosmic events were first discovered in 2015, according to new research. Astronomers made 35 new detections of gravitational waves, or

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world is on track for 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels, if not more, according to a new analysis — despite countries’ new and updated climate pledges, including those made at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. The watchdog Climate Action Tracker (CAT) warned on Tuesday that global

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN NASA has released the first snapshots of Earth taken with its new highly sensitive satellite which is designed to capture high-resolution images of the planet and help track the impacts of climate change. NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have been collecting images of our planet using satellites since 1972.

By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has begun — and things are starting to heat up. Here’s what to know. What a ‘Glasgow Agreement’ might look like The UK’s COP26 presidency released something that is called, quite oddly, a

By Sherry Liang, CNN First came the billionaires, then the movie stars — now ketchup is making its mark on the space race. Heinz revealed its first “Marz Edition” ketchup with tomatoes produced on Earth in Mars-like conditions. A team of 14 astrobiologists worked for nine months at the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida