Hundreds of physicists have spent years scrutinizing the data from a detector deep underground, listening for…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Promises a Breakthrough in Cosmic Exploration
The 1980s were both exhilarating and puzzling for those grasping at the nature of space and…
How the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, NASA’s New Window Into the Universe, Came to Be
NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could unveil clues to the mysterious dark energy that…
SpaceX to Spend $100 Billion on New Spaceport in Louisiana
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and artificial intelligence company, said on Tuesday that it would commit $100…
Trump Announces a New Policy for a ‘Golden Age of Space Transportation’
The Trump administration on Thursday released a space policy aimed at greatly increasing the number of…
Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time
For the first time, a Chinese aerospace company landed the bottom part of a rocket that…
NASA’s Attempt to Save the Swift Telescope Has Failed
NASA’s high-risk, high-reward attempt to save one of its space telescopes before it falls out of…
How NASA Engineers Are Keeping the Voyagers Alive
Nshan Kazaryan, the NASA engineer responsible for communicating with the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space…
The MOTHRA Telescope Captured the Faint Aftermath of a Star’s Death
High in the mountains of northern Chile, the MOTHRA telescope may still be under construction, but…
How to Catch the ‘Eclipse of the Century’ in 2027, When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark
If you missed this summer’s eclipse, don’t worry. There are still a handful of opportunities to…