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New York Times Space & Cosmos
During a Solar Eclipse, What Are Plants Doing?
Research conducted during the Great American Eclipse of 2017 suggests the sun’s midday disappearance shocks some…
They Kinda Want to Believe Apollo 11 Was Maybe a Hoax
Conspiracy theories were once deadly serious. On the internet, skepticism about the moon landing shows how…
NASA Reopens Apollo Mission Control Room That Once Landed Men on Moon
The restored room is a museum piece, and yet it is alive, as though engineers stepped…
NASA to Announce New Mission Live: Titan Drone or Comet Chaser?
The two spacecraft, Dragonfly and Caesar, are finalists in a competition that is not unlike “Shark…
This World Is a Simmering Hellscape. They’ve Been Watching Its Explosions.
Researchers have released a five-year record of volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter, hoping…
How ‘The Twilight Zone’ First Saw Man on the Moon
The 1959 pilot episode, airing a decade before the first moon landing, bore what would become…
Mars Released a Puff of Gas. Now the Gas Is Past.
Last week, NASA’s Curiosity rover detected a belch of natural gas on the red planet. The…
SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s 3rd Launch — How to Watch
The powerful rocket will carry an assortment of cargo to orbit, including a solar sail, an…
How NASA Sold the Science and Glamour of Space Travel
At the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, some Americans had reservations about the…