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CNN

The fossil, discovered in 1931, was thought to be an ancient reptile. Now, researchers are questioning its true nature. Valentina Rossi. Sign up for CNN’s …

Space.com

The voyaging Odysseus remains on course for a moon landing this week. The Odysseus moon lander, built by Houston company Intuitive Machines, completed two engine burns in deep space on Feb. 16 and Feb. 18 and is sailing on the right course through …

CNN

A European Space Agency satellite is expected to reenter and largely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday morning. The agency’s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, is monitoring and tracking the Earth …

Scientific American

The upcoming total solar eclipse and a pair of new sun probes are revolutionizing scientists’ understanding of our closest star. By Rebecca Boyle. A composite of 135 photographs taken between sunrise and sunset shows the progression of a total solar …

The Washington Post

Astronomers are still discovering strange things in space, and the latest is something they’ve named the Radcliffe Wave. This wave-shaped chain of star-forming clouds is the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy — 9,000 light-years from …

Space.com

A new solution to Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity suggests hypothetical gravitational stars that look like black holes could be nested within one another.

Space.com

a white and black spacex falcon 9 rocket launches into a blue sky behind another falcon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the USSF-124 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Cape …

Space.com

A new view from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) captures the abundant star-forming region at the center of the Milky Way. The VLT, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, snapped an infrared image of a region called …

BBC News

The most luminous object ever detected has been spied in the distant Universe. It’s a quasar – the bright core of a galaxy that is powered by a gargantuan black hole some 17 billion times the mass of our Sun. Known as J0529-4351, the object’s power was …

USA TODAY

“The OSIRIS-REx sample is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth and will help scientists investigate the origins of life on our own planet for generations to come,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a statement.