It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.

A gaggle of students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh traveled to Florida last month during…

Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

It’s come to this. With Earth at its hottest point in recorded history, and humans doing…

Fragments of Asteroid With Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin

Scientists have found pieces of a meteorite that fell near Berlin just after midnight on Jan.…

2024 Space and Astronomy Events Calendar

Jump to: The New York Times has offered this calendar to readers since 2017. It’s a…

New Mexico’s Spaceport America Is an Economic Dream Deferred

From his tiny gem store in southern New Mexico, Robert Hanseck spends his days untangling chakra…

A ‘Holopoem’ for the Cosmos

The artist Eduardo Kac was at his New York gallery the other day to show a…

The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last

For generations, Western space missions have largely occurred out in the open. We knew where they…

How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air

How many ways are there to leave this universe? Perhaps the best known exit entails the…

NASA Streams Cat Video From Deep, Deep Space

On Dec. 11, NASA engineers anxiously gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to…

It’s Christmastime in the Cosmos

For astronomers peering into the depths of the universe, Christmas came a little early this year.…