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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Seeking Dark Matter, They Detected Another Mystery
Do signals from beneath an Italian mountain herald a revolution in physics? Click here…
China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission
Researchers enlisted quantum physics to send a “secret key” for encrypting and decrypting messages between two…
Oumuamua: Neither Comet nor Asteroid, but a Cosmic Iceberg
A new study suggests the interloper may have arisen in an interstellar cloud, where stars are…
Create Your Own Night Sky
There are about a septillion stars in the observable universe. You can bring a fraction into…
NASA Picks Astrobotic to Carry VIPER Ice-Hunting Moon Rover
Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh company, won a $199.5 million contract to transport NASA’s VIPER rover to the…
Watch This Black Hole Blow Bubbles
A black hole was seen shooting electrified gas and energy into space. Each blob contained about…
With an Internet of Animals, Scientists Aim to Track and Save Wildlife
Using tiny sensors and equipment aboard the space station, a project called ICARUS seeks to revolutionize…
Trump Campaign Removes Space Video That Violated NASA Ad Rules
The president has tried to parlay space policy into an upbeat campaign issue for the 2020…
Going Viral, or Not, in the Milky Way
Is the pandemic a rehearsal for our own cosmic mortality? Click here for original…