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By Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy, Angela Dewan and Helen Regan, CNN Negotiations are expected to run through the night Friday at the COP26 climate summit, as stark divisions remain on several key issues. A second draft of a potential COP26 agreement was published Friday morning but there was clear opposition from many countries on language

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover took a well-deserved break in October during solar conjunction, but it’s back to investigating intriguing rocks in Jezero Crater on Mars. Solar conjunction — a period when the sun is between Earth and Mars — began on October 2, which halted NASA’s communications with the rover. This blackout

By Ivana Kottasová, Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy and Ella Nilsen, CNN With just over 24 hours before the COP26 climate summit comes to a close, it’s all hands on deck. A new version of the draft agreement text is expected to be published at some point Thursday night, but COP26 President Alok Sharma made it

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A near-Earth asteroid may be a fragment that once broke away from the moon. Named Kamo’oalewa, which derives from a Hawaiian creation chant that alludes to an offspring traveling on its own, the quasi-satellite was first discovered in 2016 by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Pan-STARRS is short for

By Sherry Liang, CNN If you missed the peak of South Taurids last week, the North Taurid meteor shower will shine this Thursday and Friday, potentially producing a few of its signature fireballs. The Taurids bring slow and steady streams from September to December. The peaks aren’t as eventful and defined as some other meteor

By Angela Dewan and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A group of 22 nations known at the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), which include China, India and Saudi Arabia, asked for the entire section on the mitigation of climate change to be removed from the draft COP26 text, in a sign of the enormous gaps that still remain

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A newly discovered black hole has been hiding in a cluster containing thousands of stars in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The black hole is 160,000 light-years away from Earth, and it’s 11 times the mass of our sun. Astronomers found it by using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large

By Ivana Kottasová and Amy Cassidy, CNN A group of young climate activists delivered a sharp rebuke to delegates at the COP26 climate summit Thursday, demanding that a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty be put in place and calling out global leaders for their continued closeness to the coal, oil and gas industries. The activists did

By Megan Marples, CNN A species of dinosaur has been discovered decades after its bones were unearthed, according to a new study. Scientists have named the ancient reptile Brighstoneus simmondsi, believed to be from the Lower Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago. The genus Brighstoneous was named after Brighstone, an English town close to

By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN The US and China surprised the COP26 climate summit on Wednesday when representatives of the countries announced an agreement to ramp up their climate ambitions, just days before the end of the conference in Glasgow. “There is more agreement between the US and China than divergence, making it

By Angela Dewan, Ivana Kottasová, Ingrid Formanek and Amy Cassidy, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on leaders and delegates to just “get on and do it” as the COP26 climate talks appear to have stalled. A draft of a summit agreement was published on Wednesday by the COP26 presidency. It includes language

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The highly anticipated landing of the first woman and the first person of color on the moon will have to wait. Due to a delay caused by litigation with Blue Origin, as well as other factors — including the pandemic — the earliest return of NASA boots on the lunar surface

CNN’s Anusha Rathi, Mitchell McCluskey, and Sophia Saifi Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, has gotten married, she announced on Instagram on Tuesday. “Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life. We celebrated a small nikkah ceremony at home in Birmingham with

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world is on track for 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels, if not more, according to a new analysis — despite countries’ new and updated climate pledges, including those made at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. The watchdog Climate Action Tracker (CAT) warned on Tuesday that global