A powerful new European weather orbiter’s cameras capture lightning in near real-time at day or night…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Webb Space Telescope’s Anniversary Image Captures Year of Cosmic Wonder
With a new image, NASA commemorates the first anniversary of doing science with the most powerful…
Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side
Data from two Chinese orbiters helped a team of scientists explain why a patch of lunar…
India’s Space Business Is Catching Up Fast
With at least 140 registered space-tech start-ups, India stands to transform the planet’s connection to the…
How to Watch SpaceX Launch the Euclid Mission to Study the Dark Universe
The European Space Agency mission will record images of billions of galaxies to create a cosmic…
Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way
Astronomers for the first time detected neutrinos that originated within our local galaxy using a new…
The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find
Radio telescopes around the world picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos, most likely…
The ‘Forbidden Planet’ That Escaped a Fiery Doom
The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago. Scientists now think…
Firouz Naderi, NASA Scientist Who Led Mars Missions, Dies at 77
In a career that was an inspiration to Iranians and Iranian Americans, he oversaw multiple missions…
Phosphorus in Enceladus’s ‘Soda Ocean’ Adds to Prospects for Life
Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists discovered the presence of phosphates on icy Enceladus. …