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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Is About to Get a New Name
The space agency will choose from nine names proposed in essays by students from kindergarten to…
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won’t Be Able to Answer
NASA will spend 11 months upgrading the only piece of its Deep Space Network that can…
Why Mars Needs a Leap Year, Too
Alien civilizations on other worlds would need much more awkward contortions to their calendars than we…
A New Mini-Moon Was Found Orbiting Earth. There Will Be More.
The object, a car-size asteroid called 2020 CD3, won’t be here for long, and new telescopes…
China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side
The Chang’e-4 mission, the first to land on the lunar far side, is demonstrating the promise…
A Meeting in Orbit Demonstrates a Space Junk Solution
Two satellites docked together high above Earth on Tuesday, successfully extending the life of one that…
Sunspots and Stranded Whales: A Bizarre Correlation
A collaboration between biologists and an astronomer sought to add evidence to the idea that whale…
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA
She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who…
Julius Montgomery, Who Broke a Space-Age Race Barrier, Dies at 90
In the Jim Crow South, he was the first black professional to be hired at Cape…