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By Ashley Strickland, CNN We are driven by discovery. As a kid, I devoured stories about the arduous efforts to reveal the past (and I still do). There were divers seeking shipwrecks, astronomers peering through telescopes at the universe, researchers digging for fossils, and historians looking through pages and paintings to find lost masterpieces. Their

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Attempting firsts on Mars is hard, even if you’re an incredibly capable and advanced robot like the Perseverance rover. The rover attempted to make history on Friday and collect its first sample of the red planet, but data returned to Earth by Perseverance showed that no rock was collected during its

By Angela Dewan, CNN A crucial system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean that helps control temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and has implications for the entire planet’s weather systems is showing signs of instability due to human-made climate change, scientists say. Its collapse would have dire consequences for our weather and life on Earth.

By Amy Wray, CNN Good Samaritans save a stranded orca, a woman fights off a coyote with a stick and Prince Harry surprises Meghan for her birthday. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Free Willy! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials and a few good Samaritans stepped in to free an orca

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By Katie Hunt, CNN Found frozen deep in the Siberian Arctic, the cave lion cub looks like she’s asleep and one touch might awaken her. The cub’s golden fur is matted with mud but otherwise undamaged. Her teeth, skin, soft tissue and organs are mummified but all intact. Some 28,000 years since she last closed

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the quest to understand Mars, two robots are better than one — especially when they work together. While the Perseverance rover prepares to collect its first Martian sample, the Ingenuity helicopter is flying overhead to scout the terrain and take photos. “Ingenuity is allowing the Perseverance science team to be

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An array of planets with similarities to some in our solar system have been found around a nearby star by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The star, known as L 98-59, is 35 light-years away from Earth. There may be as many as five planets

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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A galactic sibling rivalry is taking place millions of light-years away, and the Hubble Space Telescope has captured it in a stunning image. About 747 million light-years from Earth, a triplet of galaxies is locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that was spied by Hubble as it observed them interacting in the