An engineer for the company responsible for the shuttle’s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
The Moon's Comet-Like Tail Shoots Beams Around the Earth
“It almost seems like a magical thing,” said one of the astronomers involved in studying the…
Watch SpaceX's Starship Test Launch
Two earlier high-altitude flights of the Starship spacecraft crashed spectacularly after successful liftoffs. Click…
Hunting for a Giant Black Hole, Astronomers Found a Nest of Darkness
No Gargantua dwells at the heart of stellar cluster NGC 6397. Instead, a few dozen smaller…
NASA's Mars Parachute Had a Hidden Code. Meet the People Who Cracked It.
Engineers hinted they had hidden a code in the parachute that landed the Perseverance rover. Within…
Watch Video From NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars
Since arriving safely on Thursday, the spacecraft has been steadily transmitting visual files and other data…
Europe Wants to Diversify Its Pool of Astronauts
In its first hiring drive in over a decade, the continent’s space agency is looking to…
She Beat Cancer at 10. Now She'll Join SpaceX's First Private Trip to Orbit.
St. Jude Hospital and Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, selected Hayley Arceneaux for a trip to…
Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas
Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturn’s…