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

  • 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
    How to see a supermoon and meteors in the night sky 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus.
    NASA/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA)
    Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS just made its closest pass of the sun. Discover where it’s going next
  • 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
Ad Feedback
  • 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
  • Sea ice covers much of the Weddell Sea.
    Dr. Michelle Taylor/Weddell Sea Expedition 2019
    Antarctic expedition to find Endurance shipwreck made surprising seafloor discovery

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 is an artist's illustration of a typical asteroid, and not intended to depict 2025 PN7.
    JPL-Caltech/NASA
    Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth
  • Elon Musk calls acting NASA chief ‘Sean Dummy’ as SpaceX moon contract hangs in the balance
  • Why these companies want to send data centers into space
  • ‘We’re not going to wait for one company’: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

Archaeology

Show all

  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
    Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
    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’
  • Archaeologists have uncovered a sunken ancient Egyptian port. Is it connected to Cleopatra?

Life

Show all

  • thumbnail_LABO2812.jpg
    Briana Roberson
    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
  • What is mirror life? Scientists are sounding the alarm
  • The ‘Chicago rat hole’ sparked internet fervor in 2024. Now, scientists have found the culprit

Paleontology

Show all

  • Mammoth-Cave-megafauna.jpg
    Peter Schouten
    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
  • Researchers spot rare evidence of how two baby pterosaurs died 150 million years ago
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.