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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
One December afternoon, the sky tore open and a fiery hunk of metal, wider than a…
New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their Roof
At 11:17 a.m. on July 16, 2024, an asteroid hurtled across the sky above New York…
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life…
Will SpaceX’s 13th Test Flight of Starship Be Lucky?
A last-second scrub aborted Thursday’s test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket. The countdown reached all the…
He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
This spring, Charles Ross sat in his studio in SoHo, but his mind was elsewhere: a…
Rare Pair of Improbably Light ‘Super-Puff’ Planets Is Discovered
Astronomers have found a pair of the lightest giant planets known in the universe in a…
A Chinese Spacecraft Captures First Image of Quasi-Moon
This week, astronomers are seeing double. Just a day after Japan’s spacecraft flew by a strange,…
Dark Sky Defenders Raise Alarm Along the Border of West Texas
Unfettered access to the cosmos is an integral part of the landscape in Terlingua and across…
A Sweet Surprise: Scientists Find Sugar Deep in Our Galaxy
Our understanding of the Milky Way just got a little bit sweeter. For the first time,…