As the 50th anniversary of the moon landing approaches, these movies, television shows and podcasts help…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Photos From the 2019 Solar Eclipse in Chile and Argentina
Photographers and astronomers were strung out across the Atacama Desert waiting for the sun to spread…
Watch the Solar Eclipse Live in Chile and Argentina
You can follow Tuesday’s total astronomical event, even if you aren’t south of the Equator. …
How to Watch the Solar Eclipse in South America
You can follow Tuesday’s total solar eclipse, even if you aren’t south of the Equator. …
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…