Science | CNN

CNN values your feedback

1. How relevant is this ad to you?
2. Did you encounter any technical issues?
Thank You!
Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much appreciated.
Close
Ad Feedback
Science
Space
Life
Unearthed
More
Space Life Unearthed
Watch Listen Live TV
My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account

My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account

Live TV Listen Watch
Edition
US
International
Arabic
Español
Edition
  • US
  • International
  • Arabic
  • Español

Space
Life
Unearthed

Follow CNN

  • World
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • China
    • Europe
    • India
    • Middle East
    • United Kingdom
  • US Politics
    • Trump
    • Facts First
    • CNN Polls
    • 2025 Elections
  • Business
    • Tech
    • Media
    • Calculators
    • Videos
  • Markets
    • Pre-markets
    • After-Hours
    • Fear & Greed
    • Investing
    • Markets Now
    • Nightcap
  • Health
    • Life, But Better
    • Fitness
    • Food
    • Sleep
    • Mindfulness
    • Relationships
  • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Television
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    • Innovate
    • Foreseeable Future
    • Mission: Ahead
    • Work Transformed
    • Innovative Cities
  • Style
    • Arts
    • Design
    • Fashion
    • Architecture
    • Luxury
    • Beauty
    • Video
  • Travel
    • Destinations
    • Food & Drink
    • Stay
    • News
    • Videos
  • Sports
    • Football
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Motorsport
    • US Sports
    • Olympics
    • Climbing
    • Esports
    • Hockey
  • Science
    • Space
    • Life
    • Unearthed
  • Climate
    • Solutions
    • Weather
  • Weather
    • Video
    • Climate
  • Ukraine-Russia War
  • Israel-Hamas War
  • Features
    • As Equals
    • Call to Earth
    • Freedom Project
    • Impact Your World
    • Inside Africa
    • CNN Heroes
  • Watch
    • Live TV
    • CNN Fast
    • Shows A-Z
    • CNN10
    • CNN Max
    • CNN TV Schedules
  • Listen
    • CNN 5 Things
    • Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
    • The Assignment with Audie Cornish
    • One Thing
    • Tug of War
    • CNN Political Briefing
    • The Axe Files
    • All There Is with Anderson Cooper
    • All CNN Audio podcasts
  • Games
    • Daily Crossword
    • Jumble Crossword
    • Photo Shuffle
    • Sudoblock
    • Sudoku
    • 5 Things Quiz
  • About CNN
    • Photos
    • Investigations
    • CNN Profiles
    • CNN Leadership
    • CNN Newsletters
    • Work for CNN

Science

  • In this image provided by Blue Origin, NASA's identical Mars orbiters, named Escapade (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), are secured in Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket's 7-meter fairing, Oct. 31, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
    Stephanie Plucinsky/Blue Origin/AP
    Why an unprecedented NASA mission is set to take off on a winding journey to Mars
  •  Divers Calvin Mires and Evan Kovacs deploy flags to mark sampling locations at the Avenger aircraft in Saipan.
    Jeremy Borelli
    Over 40,000 US troops have been lost at sea. Scientists are tracking invisible clues to find them
  • This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the distant black hole referred to as J2245+3743, which in 2018, brightened dramatically to create the brightest black hole flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns. This is likely the most massive star-shredding event (formally called a tidal disruption event or TDE) ever observed and one of only a few to have occurred in an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is an active supermassive black hole "feeding" off material in a surrounding disk. The stunning flare was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory, and the Caltech-led Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey.
    R. Hurt/Caltech
    Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
  • This animation proviced by Itiner-e shows a recently discovered milestone along a mountain road in the rough Cilicia area of Turkey.
    Itiner-e
    Stunning map of ancient roads will give you a good reason to think about the Roman Empire more often
  • The <a href="index.php?page=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdlnr.hawaii.gov%2Fwildlife%2Fbirds%2Fkiwikiu%2F" target="_blank">kiwikiu</a> (pictured), a small Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to Maui, is critically endangered. Populations of it and other honeycreeper species on the islands have been wiped out by<strong> </strong>avian malaria, a disease spread by mosquitoes which the birds have no resistance to.
    Robby Kohley
    Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. Here’s why
  • Cruciform cache after excavation (Cache NR10-11)
    Middle Usumacinta Archaeological Project
    Oldest and biggest Maya temple was built to depict the cosmos
  • The November full moon nicknamed the Beaver Moon shines overhead the Mulholland Scenic Overlook in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
    Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
    Fireballs and a full moon. Here’s how to see two celestial events this week
  • Examples of caudal vertebrae with healing fractures in the neural spines/spinous processes, suggesting that an external force had pressed on top of them.
    Filippo Bertozzo/iScience
    Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
Ad Feedback
  • 3B48H4G Oct. 1, 2013 - Greenbelt, Maryland, USA - There are no tours at the closed Visitors Center at the NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Tuesday, October 1, 2013. NASA had to close the facility due to Congress not passing a funding bill by midnight September 30. (Credit Image: �Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire)
    Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire/Alamy
    NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
  • Screenshot-2025-11-03-at-7.11.48 AM.jpg
    from Erick Higuera/Marco Villegas
    Orcas seen hunting great white sharks to eat their livers in drone footage recorded in Mexico

Editor's picks

  • Titanic-bow_Images_oringinals-AC21_086.jpg
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    His search for the Titanic concealed a top-secret military operation. How the iconic discovery unfolded
  • DSCF4149.jpg
    Toby Hancock/CNN
    I tried to find out if the dinosaur tooth I bought online was real. It didn’t go as expected
  • O’Neill Cylinder interior provides a 20-mile vista. Children born here would think it totally normal to have “upside down” land areas overhead.
    Rick Guidice/NASA
    Two billionaires have very different — and equally wild — visions of a future in space. Is either possible?
  • 1,-entrance-to-Camp-Century-copy.jpg
    Robert M. Weiss
    A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
Ad Feedback

Space

Show all

  • This illustration is Lockheed Martin's concept of a two-stage crewed lunar lander that NASA could use to go to the surface of the Moon. The accent module is derived from the Orion spacecraft to ensure quicker development.
    courtesy Lockheed Martin
    Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching
  • Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS just made its closest pass of the sun. Discover where it’s going next
  • Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth
  • Elon Musk calls acting NASA chief ‘Sean Dummy’ as SpaceX moon contract hangs in the balance

Archaeology

Show all

  • A skeleton lies in the ground on the archeological excavation site at the 16th and 17th century Bedlam burial ground, uncovered by work on the new Crossrail train line next to Liverpool Street station in London, Friday, March 6, 2015. The excavation team estimate there to be 3,000 human skeletons at the site, which was a burial ground to the then adjacent Bedlam Hospital, the world's first psychiatric asylum. The 118-kilometer (73-mile) Crossrail project to put a new rail line from west to east London is Britain's biggest construction project and the largest archeological dig in London for decades. (AP Photo/)
    Matt Dunham/AP
    Scientists are one step closer to testing ancient skeletons for pregnancy
  • An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
  • Vulture nests in Spain reveal a centuries-old sandal and other stunning cultural artifacts
  • Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’

Life

Show all

  • Can a species ‘de-evolve’? Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may provide compelling evidence
    Courtesy Adam Jozwiak
    Tomatoes in the Galápagos appear to be evolving backward. Here’s what it could mean
  • Antarctic expedition to find Endurance shipwreck made surprising seafloor discovery
  • Six species of North American bats glow under UV light, adding to growing list of fluorescent mammals
  • ‘London Underground mosquito’ is actually much older than previously thought

Paleontology

Show all

  • Snout of Nanotyrannus. The skull of Nanotyrannus differs from T. rex. Nanotyrannus has different nerve patterns, sinus structures, and more teeth.
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
    ‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossil forces a radical rethink of T. rex remains
  • New research upends theory that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals to extinction
  • 66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask
  • Rare look at the last days of the dinosaurs shows they were thriving, scientists say
Ad Feedback
Ad Feedback

My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account

Live TV Listen Watch
  • World
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • China
    • Europe
    • India
    • Middle East
    • United Kingdom
  • US Politics
    • Trump
    • Facts First
    • CNN Polls
    • 2025 Elections
  • Business
    • Tech
    • Media
    • Calculators
    • Videos
  • Markets
    • Pre-markets
    • After-Hours
    • Fear & Greed
    • Investing
    • Markets Now
    • Nightcap
  • Health
    • Life, But Better
    • Fitness
    • Food
    • Sleep
    • Mindfulness
    • Relationships
  • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Television
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    • Innovate
    • Foreseeable Future
    • Mission: Ahead
    • Work Transformed
    • Innovative Cities
  • Style
    • Arts
    • Design
    • Fashion
    • Architecture
    • Luxury
    • Beauty
    • Video
  • Travel
    • Destinations
    • Food & Drink
    • Stay
    • News
    • Videos
  • Sports
    • Football
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Motorsport
    • US Sports
    • Olympics
    • Climbing
    • Esports
    • Hockey
  • Science
    • Space
    • Life
    • Unearthed
  • Climate
    • Solutions
    • Weather
  • Weather
    • Video
    • Climate
  • Ukraine-Russia War
  • Israel-Hamas War
  • Features
    • As Equals
    • Call to Earth
    • Freedom Project
    • Impact Your World
    • Inside Africa
    • CNN Heroes
  • Watch
    • Featured
    • Shows & Films
    • Network TV
    • Clips
    • CNN Headlines
    • CNN Shorts
    • TV Shows A-Z
    • CNN 10
    • CNN Max
    • TV Schedule
  • Listen
    • CNN 5 Things
    • Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
    • The Assignment with Audie Cornish
    • One Thing
    • Tug of War
    • CNN Political Briefing
    • The Axe Files
    • All There Is with Anderson Cooper
    • All CNN Audio podcasts
  • Games
    • Daily Crossword
    • Jumble Crossword
    • Photo Shuffle
    • Sudoblock
    • Sudoku
    • 5 Things Quiz
  • About CNN
    • Photos
    • Investigations
    • CNN Profiles
    • CNN Leadership
    • CNN Newsletters
    • Work for CNN

Science
Watch Listen Live TV
Follow CNN
My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account

Terms of Use Privacy Policy Ad Choices Accessibility & CC About Newsletters Transcripts

© 2025 Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All Rights Reserved.
CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.