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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The NASA InSight Lander has “heard” and detected the vibrations of four space rocks as they slammed into Mars over the past two years. It’s the first time a mission has picked up both seismic and acoustic waves from an impact on Mars, and InSight’s first detection of impacts since landing

Richard Roth, CNN It took a Queen to shake up this year’s high-level week at the United Nations General Assembly — an annual whirlwind shindig known as UNGA that will begin on Tuesday. The UN gang is finally getting back together in person, after three years of leaders speaking by video due to the global

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Beaming at the camera, a joyous Queen Elizabeth II smiles in a photograph newly released by Buckingham Palace on the eve of her state funeral. The photograph was taken back in May at Windsor Castle ahead of Platinum Jubilee celebrations marking the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. Ahead of the

By Zoe Sottile and Tara Subramaniam, CNN After going extinct in India over 70 years ago, cheetahs are finally making a comeback in the country with a new reintroduction program. Eight cheetahs from Namibia arrived in India on Saturday, according to a tweet from the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF). The big cats were released into

By Ashley Strickland, CNN If you love space and exploring the cosmos, there is no shortage of wonder right now. Scientists identified mysterious diamonds that likely originated from a dwarf planet that once existed in our solar system — until it collided with a large asteroid 4.5 billion years ago. The rare space diamonds aren’t

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is getting closer to its target. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will have a rendezvous with the space rock on September 26 after launching 10 months ago. The spacecraft will slam into an asteroid’s moon to see

By Megan Marples, CNN Nobody wants to think about how their loved ones will cope when they die, but it’s important to plan effectively to ensure a smooth transition of your wealth and worldly possessions — even if you’re young or feel like you don’t have much to leave behind. An estate plan is a

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Does constipation wreak havoc on the mating habits of scorpions? What is the best way to turn a doorknob? And does the world need a moose crash test dummy? If these burning questions have ever troubled you, then this year’s batch of the (in)famous satirical science awards, the Ig Nobel Prizes,

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Scientists have debated its existence. Tiny traces provided clues. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of a celestial diamond after finding it on Earth’s surface. The stone, called lonsdaleite, has a hardness and strength that exceeds that of a regular diamond. The rare mineral arrived here by way of a meteorite,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Investigating the site of an ancient river delta, the Perseverance rover has collected some of the most important samples yet on its mission to determine if life ever existed on Mars, according to NASA scientists. A few of the recently collected samples include organic matter, indicating that Jezero Crater, which likely

By Katie Hunt, CNN Discoveries involving a lab accident, venomous snails and a scientific instrument made from paper are some of the obscure, quirky or convoluted advances honored Wednesday with awards that celebrate research that ultimately had a big, if unexpected, impact on society. Three teams of scientists won 2022 Golden Goose Awards, a prize

By Danya Gainor, CNN The breakfast habits of ancient Scots may not have been too different from ours, new research has found. It’s Scottish lakes that get the credit for preserving this culinary snapshot of the diets and habits of humans living thousands of years ago, revealing that they enjoyed hot-cereal-like porridge, according to a

By Luke McGee, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral because of his invasion of Ukraine, a senior British government source told CNN on Tuesday. The source said the full list of invitations had not yet been finalized, but that officials from three countries had been ruled out: