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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:

By Katie Hunt, CNN From studying fossilized skulls, scientists know that the size of a Neanderthal’s brain was the same as, if not slightly bigger than, that of a modern human. However, researchers have known little about Neanderthal brain development because soft tissue doesn’t preserve well in the fossil record. Now, an intriguing study released

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Officials at NASA are pushing back the next launch attempt for its Artemis I mega moon rocket by four days to September 27, the space agency announced Monday. The Artemis mission team previously had been targeting September 23. October 2 is a potential backup date that is “under review,” according to

By Nadeem Muaddi, CNN Ahed Tamimi rose to prominence in 2017 after a video of her slapping an Israeli soldier went viral, bringing renewed attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — especially Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation. At the time of the confrontation, the 16-year-old girl was indignant over news that an Israeli soldier

By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN If you need a sign other than pumpkin spice lattes that fall is in the air, look no further than the harvest moon. Stargazers can view the moon beginning around sunset on Friday, and it will peak at 5:59 a.m. ET Saturday, according to NASA. This lunar event

By CNN Staff Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. She was 96. The Queen became the sixth female to ascend to the British throne in February 1952, after the death of her father, King George VI. She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, serving

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of billionaire and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Personal Birth date: September 29, 1936 Birth place: Milan, Italy Father: Luigi Berlusconi, bank clerk Mother: Rosella (Bossi) Berlusconi, homemaker Marriages: Veronica Lario, (1990-2012, divorced); Carla Dall’Oglio, (1965-1985, divorced) Children: with Veronica Lario: Luigi, Eleonora and Barbara;

By Kristen Rogers, CNN A giant space tarantula has been caught by a Webb — NASA’s highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, that is. At 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, the Tarantula Nebula is the nickname for 30 Doradus, the “largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group,

By Bryn Nelson, CNN Imagine you’re eating dinner on a ceramic plate and drinking water from a plastic cup while sitting in a brick house — a seemingly ordinary scenario except that your plate, cup, and your home are all fashioned in part from recycled feces. Now imagine using your poop to propel a spaceship

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at Israel, which declared independence in 1948. It borders the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, the Red Sea, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East. Since its founding, Israel has experienced conflict with its neighbors, mainly Arab and Muslim countries, and Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories. About Israel (from

By Angela Fritz, CNN Antarctica’s so-called “doomsday glacier” — nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level — has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, scientists say, amplifying concerns over the extreme sea level rise that would accompany its potential demise. The Thwaites Glacier, capable of

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Scientists have created mouse embryos in a dish, and it could one day help families hoping to get pregnant, according to a new study. After 10 years of research, scientists created a synthetic mouse embryo that began forming organs without a sperm or egg, according to the study published Thursday in

By Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN It’s called rocket science for a reason. When NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy was preparing for one of her space shuttle launches as an astronaut in the early 2000s, she told her relatives to plan a week’s trip to Florida for vacation and they might see a launch.