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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The European Space Agency’s Juice mission made two historic firsts this week on its long journey to study the potential habitability of Jupiter’s icy moons. The Juice, or Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, spacecraft — launched in April 2023 — conducted the first flyby of the moon and Earth in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — When billionaire Jared Isaacman self-funded a mission to orbit Earth in 2021, the project was billed as a childhood cancer fundraiser — and made for an eye-popping entrance into the private space tourism world. The four-person crew of people from various backgrounds with no prior spaceflight experience spent three

By Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — August continues to be an exciting month for sky-gazers. Closely following the peak of the Perseid meteor shower last week, the first of the year’s four consecutive supermoons is set to rise on August 19. The rare cosmic combination of a supermoon and blue moon peaks at 2:26 p.m.

By Ella Nilsen and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Long lines have been forming at gas stations in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, amid fuel shortages and a price spike in recent months. But electric vehicle driver Mikial Belayneh avoids them completely. “I no longer line up for petrol on the road,” Belayneh, an Addis resident,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When archaeologists sift through layers of dirt to tell stories of the past, sometimes their discoveries capture stirring traces of humanity. Continuing excavations within the ancient city of Pompeii have revealed the remains of a man and a woman within a small bedroom buried by ash and volcanic glass

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in Mississippi since he was a kid, Templeton has made several stunning extinct mammal finds, including a mastodon mandible, numerous bones from a giant armadillo-relative, and even a saber-toothed cat’s foot bone. But his latest

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze Age. Cuneiform, one of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient Middle East.Cuneiform recorded Sumerian,

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds.

By Ella Nilsen and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Two years after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law was signed, millions of Americans have used it to save millions of dollars on solar panels, appliances and home insulation. Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for residential energy upgrades are going gangbusters, recent Treasury Department data shows, with

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Greece’s worst wildfire of the year has ripped through the Attica region toward the capital Athens at lightning speed, tracking a devastating course that killed a woman, torched thousands of hectares of land and forced people to flee their homes. The fire, which started Sunday near the town of

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar mystery. Even though everything in the solar system revolves around the sun, scientists have yet to unlock many of

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For months, a gargantuan iceberg has been slowly spinning in one spot in the Southern Ocean — and it could continue to stay trapped in this vortex for quite some time, experts say. As the world’s largest iceberg, the colossus A23a is of great interest to scientists, who have closely

By Jackie Wattles, Kristin Fisher and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — Two NASA astronauts who have had their mission to the International Space Station repeatedly extended due to problems with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft will need to wait at least another week before they learn how and when they are returning to Earth. At a

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, was likely transported over 435 miles (700 kilometers) from what’s now northeastern Scotland nearly 5,000 years ago, according to new research. The findings of a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, overturn

By Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — No, it’s not your imagination — summers in the US really are getting hotter. And longer. Human-caused climate change is turbocharging heat all over the country, but it’s most intense in cities, where more than 260 million Americans live. That’s because buildings, roads and sidewalks radiate

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Data from a retired NASA mission has revealed evidence of an underground reservoir of water deep beneath the surface of Mars, according to new research. A team of scientists estimates that there may be enough water, trapped in tiny cracks and pores of rock in the middle of the

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Spiders have a reputation for giving some humans a fright, but a team of scientists has flipped the script to learn why one increasingly visible species seems to have an edge on handling stress. Jorō spiders — which have been spreading across the southeastern United States since their first appearance in

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The skeletal remains of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say. The discovery is part of a dig in Region IX of the buried city that has uncovered a plethora of ancient buildings