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New York Times Space & Cosmos
A SpaceX Rocket Will Soon Crash Into the Moon
Humanity is once again littering our nearest celestial neighbor. Early on Wednesday, the discarded upper stage…
On Second Test of Its Newest Starship Design, SpaceX Sticks the Landing
SpaceX completed a successful test flight of its Starship rocket on Friday evening, setting the stage…
A.I. Data Centers in Space? A System to Cool Chips Could Help.
With a growing backlash against the proliferation of data centers to power artificial intelligence, there has…
Mission to Save Falling NASA Space Telescope Suffers Setback
A spacecraft that is rushing to save a falling NASA space telescope now also needs to…
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
One December afternoon, the sky tore open and a fiery hunk of metal, wider than a…
New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their Roof
At 11:17 a.m. on July 16, 2024, an asteroid hurtled across the sky above New York…
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life…
Will SpaceX’s 13th Test Flight of Starship Be Lucky?
A last-second scrub aborted Thursday’s test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket. The countdown reached all the…
He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
This spring, Charles Ross sat in his studio in SoHo, but his mind was elsewhere: a…