Washington CNN — The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady again Wednesday as officials continue to wait for the fallout…
Reopening a 688-year-old murder case reveals a tangled web of adultery and extortion in medieval England
CNN — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group…
Spacecraft set for a high-stakes lunar landing attempt this week took months to reach the moon. Here’s why
CNN — Nearly five months ago, a SpaceX rocket launched out of Florida carrying two lunar landers. The Blue Ghost…
Popular theory about our galaxy’s fate might be wrong, astronomers say
CNN — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in…
A rare Archaeopteryx fossil was kept from scientists for decades. Its first-ever analysis reveals ‘one wow after another’
CNN — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, it is observing a snapshot in…
How to see May’s full flower moon
CNN — May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of…
Hidden details emerge from a medieval manuscript masquerading as a book cover
CNN — Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in the humblest of places: on paper. Indecipherable…
Mile-wide underwater volcano ready to erupt off the West Coast
CNN — Things are heating hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is showing…
A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus is due to crash back to Earth this week
CNN — A piece of a Soviet vehicle that malfunctioned en route to Venus more than 50 years ago is…
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to peak. Here’s how to see it
CNN — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to reach its peak — and you’ll need to get up…
