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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
NASA InSight Mars Mission Is Dead After 4 Years Listening for Marsquakes
After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary…
How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia
Did the former head of NASA discriminate against gay people? One physicist tried to rebut the…
Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
When mission controllers observed white particles spewing from a spacecraft that serves as a “lifeboat” for…
50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer Than Ever
Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972.…
How Science Fiction Movies Prepared Us for the Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
The promise of a new, bountiful energy source, not to mention the giant lasers, may sound…
An Ancient ‘Horizon Calendar’ Comes Into View Over Mexico City
Scientists suggest in a new study that ancient Mesoamericans tracked leap years using a sunlit horizon. …
Geminid Meteor Shower: How and When to Watch It Peak
Tuesday night into Wednesday morning will be one of the dates scattered throughout each year when…
China Maps Out Plans to Put Astronauts on the Moon and on Mars
Chinese officials at a desert rocket base described plans for their new space station and for…
Why Some Scientists Choose China’s Space Station for Research
A project led by researchers from a Swiss university highlights China’s ambition to make the Tiangong…