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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its towering New Glenn rocket on a mission that marked its first major test. Carrying a pair of satellites that are destined to take a long, winding trip to Mars, New Glenn took flight from Cape Canaveral

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few millimeters long. Live birth, or skipping the egg-laying and larva stage, is extremely rare in amphibians. Among nearly

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south as Florida. The cause: dual solar storms unleashed by the sun reaching Earth. A severe storm was initially predicted for Thursday as well, with the potential for the northern tier of the

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, according to doctoral student Alex Davidson and his supervisor Elisabetta Versace, a senior

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s biggest climate conference, COP30, has kicked off with representatives from more than 190 countries descending on the Brazilian city of Belém. They will spend two weeks deep in negotiations — likely contentious — on how to rein in dangerous global warming. COP30 is supposed to be the

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space agency. Isaacman, who was tapped to be NASA administrator after Trump was elected in 2024, only to see his nomination retracted

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Off Brazil’s northeastern coast, where the sediment-heavy water of the vast Amazon River tips out into the Atlantic, are two very different types of treasure. The first is an ecological gem: a 3,600 square-mile deepwater coral reef discovered less than a decade ago. The second treasure puts the first

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — New Glenn, the towering orbital rocket that Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin designed to compete with SpaceX’s dominant Falcon rockets, is back for its second launch ever — this time with a job to send twin spacecraft on a long, winding trip to Mars. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket was set

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, the light emitted shone with the brightness of 10 trillion suns. The source of the flare is an active

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lakes in the Amazon became hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs as unprecedented heat and drought in 2023 turned them into “shallow, simmering basins,” according to a new study — and it proved a death sentence for endangered dolphins. The world’s lakes are considered sentinels of

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ricardo Teixeira has spent the past few weeks freshening up Love Lomas, the “love motel” he owns in the Brazilian port city of Belém. He’s also mulling how to tone down some of the rooms’ more sensual aspects, including erotic chairs and menus of sex toys for sale. It’s

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, archaeologists are spilling more of the monumental structure’s secrets. The artificial plateau made from earth,

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a double celestial event this week. November’s full beaver supermoon will peak at 8:19 a.m. ET Wednesday, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. But the silvery orb will be below the horizon at that time, so take the time to look outside during the evening hours

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils. But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of one group of dinosaur. Hadrosaurs, also known as duck-billed dinosaurs, were common during the Late Cretaceous Period (100.5 to 66

By Ella Nilsen, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes — as more than a dozen buildings on the campus are being emptied and