The DART spacecraft completed its 10-month journey to demonstrate a technique that could defend the planet…
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New York Times Space & Cosmos
NASA Is About to Crash Into an Asteroid. Here’s How to Watch.
The DART mission has been flying to its target since launching last year. On Monday night,…
Maarten Schmidt, First Astronomer to Identify a Quasar, Dies at 92
His 1963 breakthrough revealed one of the furthest objects from Earth and opened new questions about…
See Images of Neptune Come Into Focus With Webb Telescope
New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. …
Physics Body Concedes Mistakes in Study of Missile Defense
Two scientists said the American Physical Society had erred in evaluating their plan to use drones…
China’s Discovery of Lunar Mineral Could Add to Fuller View of the Moon
Scientists found a single crystal of a new phosphate mineral while analyzing lunar basalt particles, which…
Life on Mars? This Could Be the Place NASA’s Rover Helps Us Find It.
Rocks collected by Perseverance are filled with organic molecules, and they formed in a lake that…
The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting
There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe, home to an unimaginable abundance of…
Bezos’ Rocket Crashes; No People Were Aboard
The capsule carrying experiments escaped damage. The F.A.A. is investigating the mishap. Click here…
NASA Could Retry Moon Rocket Launch in Late September
After two mission scrubs for technical issues, NASA officials have tentative hopes to launch the Artemis…