NASA image shows "ghostly cosmic hand" 16,000 light-years from Earth

NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer telescope studied the nebula for about 17 days, the agency said, marking the longest time it has focused on one object.

• Oct 31, 2023

Going to bat for bats

A millionaire enamored with bats, and concerned about threats to their natural habitat, built the world's largest manmade bat cave on his sprawling Texas ranch. After years of waiting, the bats showed up.

• Oct 29, 2023

For the love of bats

Texas millionaire David Bamberger was so enamored with the bats he saw at the renowned Bracken Cave Preserve outside San Antonio, and was so concerned about threats to the flying mammals' natural habitat, that in the late 1990s he built the world's largest manmade bat cave on his sprawling ranch near Johnson City. For a long time, no bats showed up. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on what happened once they did.

• Oct 29, 2023

Why did Hurricane Otis get so strong, so fast?

Hurricane Otis plowed into Mexico's Pacific coast as a deadly Category 5. Just 12 hours earlier, it was a tropical storm.

• Oct 28, 2023

U.S. and China aim for moon in new space race

China's rapidly growing space program has its sights set on the moon just as the U.S. is planning a return. CBS News' Mark Strassmann reports the head of NASA is concerned about a new space race.

• Oct 26, 2023

3-toed dinosaur footprints found on U.K. beach

Environment Agency engineers were working on sea defenses​ on the Isle of Wight when they made the discovery.

• Oct 25, 2023

Scientists discover ancient landscape "frozen in time" under Antarctic ice

"No one's laid eyes on it," the lead author of the study said. "What is exciting is that it's been hiding there in plain sight."

• Oct 24, 2023

Mysterious radio signal reaches Earth after 8 billion years: "Mind-blowing"

Exactly what causes fast radio bursts has become one of astronomy's great mysteries.

• Oct 20, 2023

Man searching carrot field finds ancient jewelry — and multiple teeth

Franz Zahn made the unusual discovery while he was "out and about in a freshly harvested carrot field" in Switzerland, officials said,

• Oct 19, 2023

Scientists explore plastic trash crisis

A whopping 170 trillion pieces of plastic litter our seas, impacting ocean health and entering the human food chain. Scientists recently probed the depths off the coast of Panama to learn more. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy reports.

• Oct 18, 2023

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