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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As the full moon shines in the night sky this weekend, take a moment to revel in its beauty and search for a large, dark plain. The surface feature is Mare Tranquillitatis, or the Sea of Tranquility, where the Apollo 11 mission landed on the afternoon of July 20,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. And it all began when the 1-ton rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open, revealing yellowish-green crystals never spotted before on the red planet. “I think it’s

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — July’s full moon will shine bright in the sky this weekend — and lands near the anniversary of a special lunar event worth celebrating. The full moon — nicknamed the buck moon — will peak at 6:17 a.m. ET Sunday, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. It’s called the buck

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Debris from a broken offshore wind turbine has for days been washing up on the Nantucket shore, prompting beach closures and frustrating locals at the peak of the summer season. The massive turbine blade – as long as a football field – was part of the Vineyard Wind farm

By Sharon Braithwaite and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Five activists of the Just Stop Oil environmental campaign have been handed prison sentences for their involvement in organizing protests that blocked a major London highway in 2022, PA media reported, sparking a wave of criticism from climate advocates. ‘Just Stop Oil’ co-founder Roger Hallam, 58,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hopes have been raised for the future of a critically endangered species of crocodile after 60 eggs hatched in the wild – the largest recorded breeding event for the species this century. The Siamese crocodiles successfully hatched in five different nests in the Cardamom National Park in Cambodia, according

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A Stegosaurus skeleton has become the most valuable fossil ever sold at auction, being snapped up for $44.6 million in New York. The dinosaur fossil was sold on Wednesday to an anonymous buyer after it was sought after by seven bidders, according to Sotheby’s, the auction house handling the

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A meteor bright enough to be spotted in broad daylight streaked across the sky on Tuesday morning, catching the attention of several East Coasters who documented their sightings. The fireball, defined as a meteor brighter than the planet Venus, is estimated to have soared over New York City before traversing

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with a highly oblong orbit that experiences wild temperature swings — and it may be transitioning into another type of world. The exoplanet, named TIC 241249530 b, orbits a star about 1,100 light-years from Earth. The star is one of a binary pair, so

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and butchered a giant armadillo-like creature with stone tools, according to a new study. The discovery, inferred from cut marks on the ice age creature’s fossilized remains, is significant because it

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge who approved the controversial Willow oil project last year tossed a separate Alaska offshore drilling project in a decision Tuesday night. It’s a notable win for environmental groups challenging the three offshore drilling lease sales mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act – a compromise written into

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new live-streaming webcam allows viewers to see inside a so-called “mega-den” – home to hundreds of rattlesnakes. The live stream, which is available to view on RattleCam.org, is run by researchers from California Polytechnic State University, according to a statement from the university, published Monday. Situated in an

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in southern Italy have identified a Roman fortification built to contain the slave revolt leader Spartacus and his army. Researchers have concluded that the wall, which extends over 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles), was built by the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus in 71 BCE. Spartacus served in

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have long theorized the existence of lunar caves — underground passageways formed through volcanic processes that are connected to the pits covering the moon’s surface. Now, a team of international researchers has found the first direct evidence that the moon’s deepest known pit connects to a cave that could

By Amy Gunia, CNN (CNN) — As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to stargaze. The group, who dubbed themselves “the Moon Club,” would lay on the ground, looking up at the cosmos. “We believed we could talk to the moon,” he told CNN in

CNN By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion Tuesday, after the city was hit by a torrential rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and power outages. “This better be Espresso Martini,” Drake joked on Instagram alongside a video of

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion Tuesday, after the city was hit by a torrential rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and power outages. “This better be Espresso Martini,” Drake joked on Instagram alongside a video of murky

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — How long does it take to reach Venus? For Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” it took nearly 14 minutes to travel all the way to the planet of love, a distance of about 158 million miles, NASA announced Monday. The agency transmitted the song to the planet

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When a cruise liner-size asteroid comes within 19,883 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth on April 13, 2029, it won’t be alone. The European Space Agency has announced that its new Ramses spacecraft may accompany the asteroid Apophis before and after its safe, albeit rather close, pass of Earth. The

By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — It’s a creature of the deep so rare that there’s never been a recorded live sighting, and since the 1800s only six samples have ever been documented. Now, experts in New Zealand are scrambling to confirm whether a 5-meter (16-foot) carcass that recently washed ashore on the country’s South