The European Space Agency’s premier telescope captured new views of space, a small taste of what…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Their Final Wish? A Burial in Space.
Why some people decide to send their remains into orbit. Click here for original…
Gazing Into the Past and Future at Historic Observatories
As ever-larger telescopes are launched into space or built at high-altitude sites, these observatories still have…
‘Vortenses’ and the Storms of Space-Time
In verse and in color, a Nobel physicist and a visual artist collaborate to portray black…
Befouling the Final Frontier
As humanity rushes back to space, we seem to be repeating some of the mistakes we’ve…
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead at 87
He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after…
Photos: NASA’s Lucy Mission Finds Dinkinesh Asteroid Has a Moon
On its way to the Trojan swarms, the spacecraft made a pit stop at a rock…
Old Faithful Is Boiling, Smelly and the Perfect Home for These Living Things
In one of Yellowstone National Park’s most well-known attractions, researchers discovered an extraordinary diversity of microbial…
Venus May Have Had Earthlike Plate Tectonics Billions of Years Ago
A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have…
Mars Conceals a Radioactive Sea of Magma Under Its Surface
The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier…