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By Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN The daughter of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny says her father’s health is deteriorating. Speaking to CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday from the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, Dasha Navalnaya described the situation as “incredibly difficult.” “He is doing as well as he can do in a Russian

By Jackie Wattles and Danya Gainor, CNN Since SpaceX’s inaugural test flight of the most powerful rocket ever constructed, the company’s engineers, federal regulators and environmentalists have been trying to assess the aftermath of the spacecraft’s explosion and what happens next. “The outcome was roughly in (line) with what I expected and, maybe slightly exceeded

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In some ways, Earth’s oceans are as alien to us as distant moons in the solar system. The vast bodies of water cover more than 70% of our planet and include mysterious regions like the “twilight zone,” where an extraordinary number of species thrive beyond the reach of sunlight — and

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Heather Chen, CNN Three civilians were injured and a gas station set on fire early Saturday near the Syrian city of Homs in an attack that Syria blamed on Israeli rockets, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported, citing a military official. At around 12:50 a.m. early on Saturday, Israel launched

CNN By Tim Lister, CNN New research has revealed the extent to which Iran has built a powerful weapons industry based on Western technology, and how that technology is being used by Russia against Ukrainian cities. Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a UK-based organization which investigates weapons’ components, has established that the Shahed-136 drones sold to

By Tim Lister, CNN New research has revealed the extent to which Iran has built a powerful weapons industry based on Western technology, and how that technology is being used by Russia against Ukrainian cities. Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a UK-based organization which investigates weapons’ components, has established that the Shahed-136 drones sold to Russia

By Katie Hunt, CNN Researchers have embarked on an ambitious global initiative to discover and record marine life hidden in the world’s oceans. Ocean Census aims to identify 100,000 unknown species in the next 10 years, allowing scientists to better understand and protect the deep-sea ecosystem. There are huge gaps in our knowledge of the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have captured for the first time the shadow of a black hole and the powerful jet of material emerging from it in a newly released image. The supermassive black hole is at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. The observations were initially made in 2018 by combining

By Katie Hunt, CNN Nature documentaries have never been more visually breathtaking — drone footage and high-definition photography make watching animals in their native habitats a majestic spectacle. What’s sometimes lost in this feast for the eyes is the sonic world of animals — audible to humans in the case of birdsong. For other animals

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers first discovered quasars, considered to be the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, 60 years ago — but they didn’t understand their origin. Now, scientists think they have unlocked the mystery behind what ignites these celestial objects. Quasars have the same luminosity of a trillion stars contained in

By Heather Chen, CNN Philip Mehrtens, the New Zealand pilot held hostage by separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, has appeared in a video saying he is “alive and well,” as concerns grow for his safety as fighting with Indonesian security forces intensifies. In the one and a half minute video, Mehrtens, dressed in

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Black holes have a reputation for snacking on stars, but some of these celestial garbage disposals may be messier than others, according to new research. Astrophysicists used 3D computer models to show that intermediate-mass black holes take a few bites out of wayward stars before tossing away the stellar crumbs and

By Mengchen Zhang, Alex Stambaugh and Ashley Strickland, CNN China’s Zhurong rover on Mars has been in hibernation since last May due to an “unpredictable accumulation” of dust, mission designer Zhang Rongqiao said, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday. Powered by solar energy, Zhurong landed in a large plain in Mars’ northern hemisphere called

By Jackie Wattles, CNN A Japanese lunar lander, carrying a rover developed in the United Arab Emirates, attempted to find its footing on the moon’s surface Tuesday — and potentially mark the world’s first lunar landing for a commercially developed spacecraft. But flight controllers on the ground were not immediately able to regain contact, prompting

By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere, aurora australis, dazzles those lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Earth’s greatest light show. The northern and southern lights, which are usually confined to the Arctic and Antarctica, have generated awe and