Look up to see bright Comet Leonard this month before it vanishes forever
By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a new comet in town, and December is your only chance to see it before disappears forever. Astronomers say that…
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A giant ‘black box’ will gather all climate data for future civilizations to learn from
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Every time new climate research is published, news headlines are posted or tweets are shared, a giant steel box perched on a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Ten men and women are ready to begin training so they can journey to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Whenever we’re confronted with aspects of science fiction becoming scientific reality, philosophical questions arise.…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 –…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of JoaquÃn Guzmán, otherwise known as “El Chapo,” a Mexican drug lord who has…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two…
Continue ReadingInternational Space Station swerves to avoid space junk, Russia says
By Zahra Ullah, CNN The International Space Station had to adjust its orbit to avoid collision with a piece of debris from a US rocket, the head of…
Continue ReadingNASA is about to launch a laser demo that could revolutionize space communication
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The use of invisible lasers in space may sound like something from science fiction, but it’s real. NASA’s…
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Continue ReadingA year on this exoplanet only lasts about 8 hours
By Ashley Strickland, CNN If you think there aren’t enough hours in the day on Earth, this newly discovered planet will make your head spin. On…
Continue ReadingA ferocious marine reptile with gnarly teeth for crushing prey was discovered in Colombia
By Megan Marples, CNN Scientists revealed a newly discovered marine ichthyosaur species with gnarly teeth that was found in Colombia. The partial…
Continue ReadingRepealing Roe v. Wade would set the US apart from other leading democracies. Here’s how some key nations view abortion
By Rob Picheta, CNN The United States Supreme Court appears poised to pare down, or even entirely overturn, nearly five decades of constitutional…
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CNN, CNNE, THE SUPREME COURT, BILL HENNESSY, POOL, WLBT By Rob Picheta, CNN The United States Supreme Court appears poised to pare down, or even…
Continue ReadingNASA astronauts successfully conduct spacewalk postponed due to debris risk
By Ashley Strickland, CNN During a six and a half hour spacewalk Thursday, NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron replaced a…
Continue ReadingHow South African scientists discovered Omicron and set off a global chain reaction
By Tim Lister and David McKenzie, CNN In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found…
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Continue ReadingAstronauts celebrate record-breaking chile harvest in space with taco night
By Ashley Strickland, CNN While we were eating Thanksgiving leftovers and shopping sales on Black Friday, astronauts on the International Space…
Continue ReadingNew armored dinosaur found in Chile had bizarre weaponized tail
By Katie Hunt, CNN A new species of armored dinosaur discovered in Chile had a weaponized tail not seen before in any other dinosaur. Roughly 2…
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