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Space.com

The little chopper’s flying days are over, but it’s still alive and gathering data on the Red Planet. a small helicopter sits on a reddish sand dune, with a piece of one of. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple …

Space.com

“We were confused about what we were seeing at first, but ultimately, that transformed into pure excitement at the discovery.” Comments (0). An illustration of a brown dwarf with a ring of reddish auroral emissions at its north.

The New York Times

Ancient humans left behind numerous archaeological traces in the cavern, and scientists say there may be thousands more like it on the Arabian Peninsula to study.

CNN

An artist’s illustration shows the orbits of the star and black hole, dubbed Gaia BH3. L. Calçada/ESO. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter …

Space.com

Two men in dark suits shake hands while sitting at a table with documents and two. Minister for Education Mats Persson and U.S. Ambassador Erik D. Ramanathan shake hands after the signing ceremony …

Space.com

The Starlink launches just keep on coming. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (April 17) during a four-hour window that opens at 5:26 p.m. …

Scientific American

An artist’s concept of an Artemis astronaut deploying an instrument on the lunar surface. NASA. Space Exploration.

The Washington Post

On a nice spring day at the end of May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her dad, Justin, were fossil-hunting on Blue Anchor Beach in Somerset, England, when they discovered a fragment of a titanic sea beast. As Justin studied the four-inch-long, …

The New York Times

An illustration shows a giant ichthyosaur carcass washed up on a beach with two small theropods. Fragments of an ichthyosaur jawbone from the Westbury Mudstone Formation in Somerset, England, suggest Ichthyotitan severnensis may have …

Scientific American

This eight-legged probe would scour Mars’s underground lava tubes for places where explorers might camp—or for signs of past life. By Lauren Leffer. Field testing the ReachBot in a lava tube in the Mojave Desert. BDML Stanford University. Robotics.