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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Elon Musk Foments More Geopolitical Controversy With Ukraine Internet Dispute
The world’s richest man, whose Starlink internet service is critical to the Ukrainian Army, said he…
NASA DART Spacecraft Successfully Smashed Asteroid Into New Orbit
The DART mission proved more successful than expected in adjusting the trajectory of Dimorphos, suggesting that…
Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe
Take gravity, add quantum mechanics, stir. What do you get? Just maybe, a holographic cosmos. …
SpaceX Will Launch First Russian Astronaut: How to Watch
Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NASA and Roscosmos have managed to continue cooperating on flights…
New Europa Pictures Beamed Home by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
The space probe has been studying Jupiter since 2016 and just flew within about 200 miles…
NASA May Let Billionaire Astronaut and SpaceX Lift Hubble Telescope
Jared Isaacman, who traveled to orbit on the Inspiration4 mission, is pursuing a private space program…
Photos Show NASA’s DART Spacecraft Crashing Into Asteroid
Astronomers on Earth — and a shoebox-size Italian spacecraft called LICIACube — captured the DART mission’s…
What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission
The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening…
NASA Smashes Into an Asteroid, Completing a Mission to Save a Future Day
The DART spacecraft completed its 10-month journey to demonstrate a technique that could defend the planet…