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By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the quest to find potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system, astronomers have searched for exoplanets similar to Earth. Now, scientists have a new class of habitable exoplanets to look for: Hycean planets. These are hot planets covered in oceans that have an atmosphere rich in hydrogen — and

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A discovery made during a police raid has been identified as the most complete fossil of a flying reptile from Brazil. The remains revealed new information about tapejarids, or pterosaurs that soared across the skies during the Early Cretaceous period between 100.5 million and 145 million years ago. A study on

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the story of a previously unknown group of humans. This distinct human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the world, according to new research. The study published Wednesday in

By Tara John, CNN Fears are growing about rising Covid-19 infections among children as the United States is turning into a bellwether for other countries, some of which are preparing for a return to school without mask mandates in classrooms and access to vaccines for younger age groups. The US has seen an exponential growth

By Lauren Mascarenhas and Nectar Gan, CNN The number of new Covid-19 cases reported globally “seems to be plateauing” after increasing for nearly two months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. WHO reported more than 4.5 million new cases and 68,000 new deaths worldwide last week — only a slight increase from the more

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), international soccer’s governing body and organizer of global tournaments including the World Cup. Other Facts When FIFA was founded in 1904, there were seven member countries: France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The United States joined the Zurich,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A newly discovered asteroid is sticking close to our sun — much closer than our own planet Earth. The asteroid, called 2021 PH27, completes an orbit around the sun every 113 days and comes within 12.4 million miles (20 million kilometers) of our star. That gives this space rock the distinction

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Islam. The word Islam translates as “submission” or “surrender.” Surrender to the will of Allah – Arabic for God. Beliefs/Practices Islam is partially based on the Judeo-Christian religions. It has a monotheistic (belief in one God) message, and follows some of the same principles as Christianity and Judaism.

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Researchers have captured the moment when a livelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat — and what made it all the more “horrifying” was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video when a Seychelles giant tortoise — previously thought to be vegetarian — attacked and ate a

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Legendary Black entertainer Josephine Baker is set to become the first Black woman to have her remains buried in the Panthéon monument in Paris — one of the highest honors in France. French president Emmanuel Macron made the announcement on Monday, writing that Baker “held high the motto of the French

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacewalk outside of the International Space Station including NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been postponed due to a “minor medical issue,” according to NASA. The agency said the issue involving Vande Hei is not a medical emergency. The spacewalk, originally scheduled

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A Comet that intrigued astronomers with its first appearance in our sky at the very end of 2019, but it disintegrated into 30 tiny ice shards months later. Now, observations made while the comet, named ATLAS, was still intact have shed light on the comet’s “family,” which stretches back thousands of

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Judaism, the monotheistic (belief in one God) religion of the Jewish people. About Judaism Jewish law is rooted in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. According to the Torah, Abraham is the father of Judaism. He was born about

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Khaled Hosseini’s novels show readers around the world a side of Afghanistan that goes beyond war and terror. His debut best-seller “The Kite Runner” was published in 2003, two years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US operation in Afghanistan. Millions of people were captivated by the tale of Amir

By Atika Shubert and Sheena McKenzie, CNN A little girl in a gold sequined dress and sneakers can’t hide the huge smile on her face, as her temperature is checked upon arrival at the Ramstein US Air Base in southwestern Germany on Saturday. She is one of more than 5,000 evacuees to arrive at the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN What makes humans a successful species? We’ve been around for a long time, and we’re still here (unlike Neanderthals). But it hasn’t been an easy road — and we don’t always make great choices. Maybe it’s because we strive, we fail, and we learn. As my college photojournalism teacher Mark Johnson

By Kristen Rogers, Ashley Strickland and Sarah Molano, CNN This weekend is your next chance to catch the rare full blue moon before it again becomes “just a memory” until 2024. A blue moon is the third full moon in a season containing four full moons, rather than the usual three, according to Sky &