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CNN

An artist’s life reconstruction of the bird-like Cretaceous Period dinosaur Natovenator polydontus, which boasted a streamlined body resembling those of diving birds and lived about 72 million years ago in what is now the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

EarthSky

New research suggests it’s possible. Recently, EarthSky reported on a study showing that Mars was once likely a water world. It might have had oceans even before Earth did. On November 17, 2022, European researchers announced a study that reaches a similar …

The Bakersfield Californian

The Artemis 1 mission has worked very well after a successful late-night launch on Nov. 15. On Nov. 28, the Orion spacecraft reached a distance from Earth of 268,563 miles, making it the farthest distance that any spacecraft capable of carrying humans …

silive.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Stargazers can look up to the night sky in December to see a spectacular show of shooting stars before the end of the year — the Geminids meteor shower. Geminids make up one of the best and most reliable meteor showers of the …

The Jerusalem Post

The first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, in a composite made from …

The Sydney Morning Herald

Without a new one, a generation of astronomers will lose access to the night sky, the Astronomical Society of Australia argues. Australia’s astronomers are calling on the government to invest in the largest telescope in the …

The Sydney Morning Herald

Construction on the world’s biggest radio telescope, which will span two continents, peer deep into space and time and is expected to capture the “entire observable universe”, will officially begin on Monday. The Square Kilometre Array will be split …

The Guardian

Construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the Square Kilometre Array, has officially begun in Australia after three decades in development. A huge intergovernmental effort, the SKA has been hailed as one of the …

The Jerusalem Post

Artist’s impression of the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, and the Breakthrough Listen compute cluster, scanning the sky for possible signals (represented as binary codes) from extraterrestrial intelligence. One of the first targets to be observed by …

Otago Daily Times

Because this close approach of Mars is in the northern constellation of Taurus, our view of the planet isn’t as good as that seen by northern hemisphere sky watchers. From Dunedin, Mars never gets higher than 20deg above the northern horizon. In northern …