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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a dead star plunges into an active star, expect an explosion of astronomical proportions that isn’t supposed to happen yet. Astronomers were able to work out this stellar puzzle after tracing an unusual burst of bright radio waves in 2017. The radio waves were captured by the Very Large Array

By Merlin Delcid and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN El Salvador’s highest court has ruled that the country’s president can serve two consecutive terms in office, paving the way for current president Nayib Bukele to run for re-election in 2024. The decision was delivered late Friday night by judges appointed in May by the country’s newly elected

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at terror attacks involving vehicles used as deadly weapons by radicalized individuals or terror groups. Facts Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch encouraged its Western recruits to use trucks as weapons. A 2010 webzine article, “The Ultimate Mowing Machine,” called for deploying a pickup truck as a “mowing machine, not

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, a professional Brazilian football (soccer) player. During his World Cup appearances, he scored 12 goals in 14 games. He played in four World Cups, and his Brazilian team won three (1958, 1962, 1970). Personal Birth date: October

By Ashley Strickland, CNN While we were enjoying the weekend, the Perseverance rover was hard at work making history on Mars. New images with better lighting reveal that the rover did, in fact, successfully collect a Martian rock sample last week. After processing and sealing, it’s the first Mars rock core sample to be stowed

By Katya Krebs, CNN A top international conservation agency warned that 28% of the 138,374 species identified on its “survival watchlist” as being under threat have now been moved to the more dangerous “red list” — meaning they are at high risk of extinction. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported during

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Our planet is wonderfully wild. It’s easy to forget that amid the daily hustle and bustle of our lives — especially for those of us who only see wildlife when a bird or a squirrel darts by the window. Remember when you were a kid and evidence of Earth’s menagerie was

By Omar Jimenez and Bill Kirkos, CNN As Afghans flee the Taliban regime and flow into the United States, they are landing in places like Fort McCoy, situated in rural Wisconsin. It’s the current temporary home for up to 13,000 recently-evacuated Afghan refugees, though Army officials would not disclose the actual number on base. Marcos

By Gregory McNamee, CNN Gear up for the latest spacewalk on September 12 with an out-of-this world playlist. Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency will venture into space to mount a support bracket on the International Space Station for the third new solar array,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov conducted a spacewalk Friday to prepare the new Nauka module for operations on the International Space Station. The spacewalk began Friday at 10:41 a.m. ET and ended at 6:35 p.m., lasting seven hours and 54 minutes. It’s the first of what could be up

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover successfully drilled into a Martian rock on Thursday, creating an intact core sample that could one day be returned to Earth. But NASA wants better images to make sure the sample is safely in the tube before it’s sealed up and stowed on the rover. So far, data

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the equinox. The equinox occurs twice a year when the sun is directly above the Earth’s equator and day and night are of equal length. Facts September 22, 2022 – The autumnal equinox begins at approximately 01:04 UTC. March 20, 2023 – The vernal equinox begins at approximately

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the US War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 with allied air strikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets. The United States linked the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to al Qaeda, a group that operated under the Taliban regime’s protection in Afghanistan. Timeline October 7,

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. October 4-5, 2022 – Yom Kippur begins at sundown on October 4 and ends at nightfall on October 5. The Day of Atonement is considered the most important and sacred of Jewish religious holidays. It falls on the 10th

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Despite threatening to pull Russia out of the International Space Station prematurely, the head of the country’s space agency is now promising to remain NASA’s partner at least until the orbiting outpost is eventually retired. “This is a family, where a divorce within a station is not possible,” Dmitry Rogozin told

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