Elon Musk aggressively elbowed his way into the space launch business over the past two decades,…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Here Comes Manhattanhenge 2024: When and How to Watch
New Yorkers, get ready for the latest solar spectacle. Each year at the end of May,…
Rivers of Lava on Venus Reveal a More Volcanically Active Planet
Witnessing the blood-red fires of a volcanic eruption on Earth is memorable. But to see molten…
NASA Astronauts to Wait Another Week for Boeing Starliner Launch
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was scheduled to take two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station…
Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service
Just before Russian troops pushed across the Ukrainian northern border this month, members of Ukraine’s 92nd…
New ESA Euclid Images Find Scenes of Cosmic Light in a Dark Universe
Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light By Katrina Miller Euclid, a European…
Supernova or Coronavirus: Can You Tell the Difference?
A scientist finds beauty in the “visual synonyms” that exist in images seen through microscopes and…
Comet Fragment Explodes in Dark Skies Over Spain and Portugal
On Saturday, revelers across Spain and Portugal ventured into the temperate springtime evening, hoping for a…
Ed Dwight Goes to Space 63 Years After Training as 1st Black Astronaut
More than 60 years after Edward Dwight was chosen to be the first Black astronaut, only…
Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth
Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, began his career searching for gravitational…