Linda Strickland

NASA has launched its first mission to the metal asteroid Psyche to discover if it is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system cnn.it/46soSGQ

Seven years after launching, a spacecraft is about to fly by Earth to deliver a pristine sample collected from a near-Earth asteroid. The principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission joined CNN to break it all down. Follow along: cnn.it/3RrEO7w

Astronomers solve the puzzle of an unusual pulsing dead star cnn.it/3R2DJmn

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula. cnn.it/3YUY276

August began with a bright supermoon and will end the same way as another one lights up the night sky this week. cnn.it/3L4wYwt

Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet. cnn.it/3qxGjWH

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe Earendel, the most distant star ever detected cnn.it/3OSG95o

Experts have ideas about what the cosmic question mark object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope could be. cnn.it/449LjhM

The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise cnn.it/3OsrigI

Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson — launched its first space tourists to the edge of the cosmos, a major step toward delivering on decades of promises. cnn.it/3OODNEP

Russia is preparing to launch Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years cnn.it/444aJNS

Russia has successfully launched Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years cnn.it/45nUkox

The Euclid space telescope, designed to investigate some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, has captured its first glimpses of the cosmos cnn.it/43NYR2p

The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years cnn.it/43U4xYN

A lost Maya city abandoned more than 1,000 years ago has been found in the jungles of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. cnn.it/3OhL3ay