The 31 Absolute Best TV Shows to Watch on HBO Max
The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey and based on the acclaimed video game of the same name, hits HBO Max on Jan. 15. HBO HBO Max…
NASA Considers SpaceX as Emergency Return Option for ISS Crew
NASA TV streamed a look at the Soyuz leak as it happened. NASA TV Three residents of the International Space Station are facing an uncertain future after a Russian Soyuz…
NASA Is Pumped About 2023: Here’s Why
Starliner after its return from a flight test. NASA hopes the Boeing spacecraft will carry crew to the ISS in 2023. NASA/Bill Ingalls It’s going to be tough for NASA…
How To See the 2023 Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak in a Flurry of Fire This Week
Astronauts on the International Space Station caught Quadrantids from orbit in 2020. NASA/Christina Koch The first few months of the year have a relative dearth of meteor showers, so it’s…
How Tesla, Google and Others Are Making Robots More Like Us
It wasn’t that long ago that putting a robot in your home meant plugging in a Roomba and letting it roam around your floors like a little dust-busting sentry. But…
‘Weather Whiplash’ Is the New Normal. What It’s Like Living Through It
Smoke from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon fire, as seen from Taos, New Mexico, on May 15. Eric Mack This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the…
Historic Winter Storm Puts Huge Swath of America on Notice
A satellite view of Winter Storm Elliott on Dec. 23, 2022. NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/GOES-EAST Temperatures have dropped, snow is flying, flights are canceled and traffic is treacherous or snarled across much of…
The Fight Against Biodiversity Loss Gets a Win at UN Conference
Representatives from China and the UN at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada. Lars Hagberg / Getty Images This year’s UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, known as…
These Floaters Turns Ocean Waves Into Renewable Energy
On the coastline of Gibraltar, blue metal floaters attached to a former World War II ammunition jetty bob up and down, turning the gentle rise and fall of waves into…
Newly Discovered Asteroid Is a Weird ‘Mini Moon’ on a 200-Year Visit to Earth
An asteroid just spotted for the first time seems to have been circling Earth for decades. NASA Our planet has a pretty permanent relationship with the moon, but occasionally Earth’s…










