The agency is racing to meet President Trump’s timeline for putting American astronauts on the lunar…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Aleksei Leonov, First Man to Walk in Space, Dies at 85
The Russian cosmonaut’s thrilling feat in 1965 nearly cost him his life, but raised Soviet prestige…
NASA and SpaceX Are Feuding. Will They Make Up?
The space agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, will meet Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters on Thursday, weeks…
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Studies of Earth’s Place in the Universe
The cosmologist James Peebles split the prize with the astrophysicists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, for…
First All-Female Spacewalk Is Back On, NASA Says
The mission was canceled in March after the agency said it did not have two properly…
An Astronaut Who Built Paths to Space for Other Women
Janet Kavandi, who recently retired from a senior NASA post, went to space three times and…
An Interstellar Comet, in Time for the Holidays
On Dec. 7, the extrasolar comet now known as 2I/Borisov will make its closest approach to…
SpaceX Unveils Silvery Vision to Mars: ‘It’s Basically an I.C.B.M. That Lands’
Elon Musk delivered an update on his company’s Starship prototype, which faces business challenges and neighbors…
Elon Musk to Deliver SpaceX Starship Presentation
The founder of the private launch company will offer a major update on its next major…
Congratulations, You Survived Black Hole Week
Here are three cosmic events you may have missed and that fortunately missed you. …