A small company, Astrolab, announced a deal with SpaceX to send a robotic version of its…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Ukraine Goes Dark: NASA Images Drive Home a Nation’s Anguish
A satellite operated by NASA and NOAA bares how Russia’s drones and missiles knocked out the…
A Paler Uranus Emerges in the Latest Hubble Telescope Image
A pair of images, taken eight years apart, show changes to the ice giant planet as…
Relativity Space’s 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Just After Launch
Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the…
Centuries of Stargazing Leave Jesuit Names Written in the Heavens
The latest list of approved labels for asteroids includes nods to three more scholars of the…
Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests
Astronomers offer “a surprisingly simple explanation” for the curious behavior of the interstellar visitor in 2017. …
Flaming Space Debris Re-entering Atmosphere Lights Up California Sky
Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles…
NASA and Axiom Space Unveil Suit Redesign
NASA and Axiom Space have unveiled the first major spacesuit redesign in four decades. Astronauts are…
NASA Unveils a New Moon Suit for Artemis Astronauts
Axiom Space is building the new spacesuits in a commercial partnership similar to the one between…
The Moon May Get Its Own Time Zone
As different countries plan lunar missions, the European Space Agency says that creating a time zone…