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By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, September 26, according to NASA. The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between it and the sun, said Trina L. Ray, deputy science manager

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Get ready to see an asteroid’s tiny moon for the first time. Then, watch as a spacecraft deliberately crashes into it. This scenario sounds like a sci-fi plot, but the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test, happening Monday, is a real-life mission. It aims to be humanity’s first attempt at deflecting an

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I rocket will not have its third launch attempt on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian making its way toward Cuba and Florida. After meeting on Saturday morning, NASA’s Artemis team decided to forgo the September 27 launch opportunity and is now preparing the mega

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Central Tonga Islands welcomed the birth of a new baby — a baby island, that is. The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes are plentiful. One of these submerged volcanoes awoke on September 10, spewing lava, steam, and ash, according to a statement from

By Jacob Lev, CNN A Laver Cup tennis match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Diego Schwartzman in London was interrupted by a protester who lit his arm on fire on Friday. The protester, who was wearing a white shirt that said “End UK Private Jets” ran onto the court at the O2 Arena and briefly lit

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test aims to make history on Monday at 7:14 p.m. ET when it slams into Dimorphos, a tiny asteroid moon orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. The impact, if successful, will slightly change the motion of the asteroid. It’s a test of deflection technology that could one

By Ashley Strickland, CNN On Monday, a NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, aims to see if this kind of kinetic impact can help deflect an asteroid posing a threat to Earth. “We are moving an asteroid,” said Tom Statler, NASA program scientist

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I rocket will get its third launch attempt on Tuesday, September 27, but Tropical Depression Nine could change that. The 70-minute launch window opens at 11:37 a.m. ET and the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft continue to sit on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

By Kristen Rogers, CNN More than 15 years after fast radio bursts were discovered, new research has both unraveled and deepened the mystery of the sources of these deep space phenomena. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright, powerful emissions of radio waves ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds, each

By Katie Hunt, CNN It’s a hard-fought paleontological debate. Did the massive asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wipe out a thriving and diverse population of dinosaurs, or were they already struggling to survive when that cataclysmic day dawned? Most information on dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous era comes from what

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Rescue teams have managed to save 32 pilot whales following a mass stranding this week in a remote part of in Australia that saw the deaths of around 200 whales. The stranded pod had been discovered by Tasmanian wildlife officials on Monday — at which time, half of

By Angela Dewan, Jessie Yeung, Caitlin Hu and Ella Nilsen, CNN World Bank President David Malpass told CNN on Thursday that he agrees climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels and that he is “not a denier,” after his repeated refusal to say the same things at an earlier discussion, which have prompted

By Angus Watson, Wayne Chang and Heather Chen, CNN Around 200 whales have died and just 35 remain alive following a mass stranding in Australia this week, rescue teams say. The pilot whales were found Wednesday stranded on an exposed beach along the coast of Tasmania. Rescue efforts are ongoing to save the remaining whales.

By Jonny Hallam, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Caitlin Hu, CNN The day began with an escalation of force from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and ended with a call for his country’s diplomatic isolation by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky on Wednesday addressed the United Nations, urging world leaders to unite against Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, CNN US President Joe Biden said he believes the Covid-19 pandemic is “over,” even as the country continues to see around 400 deaths a day. In a Sunday interview on CBS’ “60 minutes,” the President acknowledged the US still has a “problem” with the virus — which has killed

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN More than 200 whales have been found stranded in Australia on the western shore of Tasmania, wildlife officials said. The animals, which appear to be pilot whales, are currently stranded on a beach and a sand bank, the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service said in a statement issued