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The latest on the Tokyo Olympics

Jul 27, 2021 6:00 pm
By Joshua Berlinger, Aditi Sangal and Adam Renton, CNN

Hubble finds water vapor around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

Jul 27, 2021 9:37 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

The Hubble Space Telescope has spied evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system. The water vapor forms as the icy surface of the moon turns from a solid to a gas, a process called sublimation. Astronomers uncovered this water vapor while using a combination…

July 27 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

Jul 26, 2021 6:00 pm
By Joshua Berlinger, Brett McKeehan, Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Meg Wagner, Melissa Mahtani and Veronica Rocha, CNN

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Largest known comet is heading close enough to us to become visible

Jul 26, 2021 10:46 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Astronomers have discovered the largest known comet, and it’s about a thousand times more massive than others. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, so named because it was found by University of Pennsylvania department of physics and astronomy graduate student Pedro Bernardinelli and Professor Gary Bernstein, is between 62 to 124 miles (100 to 200 kilometers) across. The team…

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Virtual contact was worse for older people during the pandemic than no contact, study finds

Jul 26, 2021 5:21 am
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN

As the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe in early 2020, people around the world found themselves confined to their homes and limited to speaking to friends and loved ones via phone or video chat. But rather than helping alleviate isolation, this virtual contact was more likely to result in older people feeling lonely, according to…

Meteor lights up the night in Norway

Jul 25, 2021 11:50 am
By Elaine Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN

An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway. The meteor “lit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight,” just after 1 a.m., Steinar Midtskogen, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Meteor…

July 25 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

Jul 24, 2021 6:08 pm
By Helen Regan and Brad Lendon, CNN

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Secrets of Mars’ core revealed for the first time

Jul 24, 2021 5:01 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Have you ever spotted another planet in the sky? It’s a celestial thrill without compare. The first time I spied Mars, it appeared like a red star among a sea of glittering white ones. It was a mind-blowing moment, as I thought about the many spacecraft that humans have sent across millions of miles to…

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The latest on the Tokyo Olympics

Jul 23, 2021 6:10 pm
By Matias Grez, John Sinnott, Ben Westcott and Brett McKeehan, CNN

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Marsquakes reveal the mysterious interior of the red planet

Jul 23, 2021 7:29 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

When NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars in 2018, the mission team hoped the stationary spacecraft would be able to perform a checkup on the red planet’s interior. Now, InSight and its instruments have exceeded those goals, revealing the mysteries of the Martian crust, mantle and core that have eluded scientists until now. It’s…

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Gun that killed Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid goes to auction

Jul 23, 2021 7:04 am
By Sara Spary, CNN

The gun used to kill the notorious Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid 140 years ago is going to public auction for the first time — with an estimated selling price of $2-3 million. The Colt Single Action firearm belonged to Sheriff Pat Garrett, who shot and killed Billy the Kid at a ranch in…

Must-watch videos of the week

Jul 23, 2021 2:45 am
By Rachael Scott, CNN

NFL GOAT Tom Brady lobs jokes at the White House, a new bride tests her “in sickness and in health” vow at the reception and Olympic athletes TikTok-test their cardboard beds in the athletes’ village (yes, cardboard). These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘Sleepy Tom’ Brady Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady visited…

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Watch the July full ‘buck’ moon illuminate the sky tonight

Jul 23, 2021 12:54 am
By Sarah Molano and Ashley Strickland, CNN

Lunar lovers, grab a cozy spot outside and set your sights to the southeast to gaze upon July’s full moon, dubbed the “buck” moon, as it rises Friday after sunset. The moon will reach peak illumination at 10:37 p.m. ET Friday, according to NASA. In all its glory, the celestial treat will hang in the…

Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony just hours away

Jul 22, 2021 6:00 pm
By Joshua Berlinger and Adam Renton, CNN

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As the West winds down its ‘war on terror,’ jihadists are filling the vacuum, UN warns

Jul 22, 2021 11:43 am
By Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister and Nic Robertson, CNN

As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the United Nations is warning that the threat from terror groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda is not only resilient, but in many places expanding. A report to the Security Council by the UN monitoring team charged with tracking worldwide jihadi threats, published Thursday, warns that these…

Astronomers spy first moon-forming disk around an exoplanet

Jul 22, 2021 2:01 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system — the kind of disk where moons could actively be forming. The disk, known as a circumplanetary disk, was discovered around an exoplanet known as PDS 70c. It’s one of two massive planets similar to Jupiter that…

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Wildfires have erupted across the globe, scorching places that rarely burned before

Jul 21, 2021 7:04 pm
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Photo editor Sarah Tilotta, CNN

Yakutsk in Russian Siberia is known as the world’s coldest city. In a place where even an exposed nose during the winter months can cause biting pain, people are accustomed to taking precautions against freezing temperatures, including spending extra time in the morning to dress in many layers. But now the city is blanketed in…

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Jul 21, 2021 6:00 pm
By Joshua Berlinger and Adam Renton, CNN

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Perseverance rover prepares to collect Martian samples that will be sent to Earth

Jul 21, 2021 10:58 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Almost a year after NASA’s Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic explorer is preparing to collect its first Martian sample within the next two weeks. This sample, which will be returned to Earth by missions in the 2030s, might contain evidence of whether there was past life on…

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This butterfly was the first to go extinct in the US because of humans

Jul 20, 2021 1:02 pm
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, a blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation — and what happens when humans destroy habitats without thought for the creatures living in them. The last of the Xerces blue butterflies fluttered through the air in San Francisco in the early…

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Scientists are worried by how fast the climate crisis has amplified extreme weather

Jul 19, 2021 10:01 pm
By Angela Dewan, CNN

Until recently, climate change had been talked about as a future threat. Its frontlines were portrayed as remote places like the Arctic, where polar bears are running out of sea ice to hunt from. Sea level rise and extreme drought was a problem for the developing world. But in the past month, it’s been the…

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Ingenuity helicopter spies intriguing features on Mars during record-breaking flight

Jul 19, 2021 9:27 am
By Ashley Strickland, CNN

During a recent daring Martian flight by the Ingenuity helicopter July 5, the chopper acted like an aerial scout for the Perseverance rover as it sailed over rough but intriguing terrain. Now, photos taken during the 2,051-foot-long flight are helping the Perseverance science team develop the rover’s exploration plan. This Martian helicopter did things it…

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Canada will finally open its borders, first to Americans, beginning August 9

Jul 19, 2021 7:51 am
By Paula Newton, CNN

The long wait will soon be over for foreigners who have been banned from entering Canada for nearly 16 months. Beginning August 9, fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents of the United States currently residing in the US will be permitted to enter Canada. Non-essential travel into Canada has been banned since March 2020, something…

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The Hubble Space Telescope is functioning again after more than month offline

Jul 19, 2021 3:05 am
By Katie Hunt, CNN

The Hubble Space Telescope is functioning again after more than a month offline as a result of a problem with the payload computer on board. On Saturday, NASA said engineers had successfully switched the telescope, which orbits 340 miles above Earth’s surface, to backup hardware, a high-stakes maneuver that began Thursday. “Hubble is an icon,…

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Deadly floods inundated parts of Europe, but the Netherlands avoided fatalities. Here’s why

Jul 19, 2021 1:44 am
By Ivana Kottasová and Mick Krever, CNN

As communities devastated by the catastrophic flooding in parts of western Europe start picking up the pieces, they are wondering how it all went so wrong, so fast. After all, Europe has a world-leading warning system that issued regular alerts for days before floods engulfed entire villages. But at least 200 people still died in…

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