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New York Times Space & Cosmos
How to watch meteor showers
2023 should be a good year for meteor lovers. Click here for original story,…
31 Hours Inside SpaceX Mission Control
A reporter got an inside look at SpaceX’s attempt to launch and land three rockets in…
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started
The first scientific results are coming in, and the $10 billion instrument is working even better…
NASA InSight Mars Mission Is Dead After 4 Years Listening for Marsquakes
After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary…
How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia
Did the former head of NASA discriminate against gay people? One physicist tried to rebut the…
Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
When mission controllers observed white particles spewing from a spacecraft that serves as a “lifeboat” for…
50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer Than Ever
Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972.…
How Science Fiction Movies Prepared Us for the Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
The promise of a new, bountiful energy source, not to mention the giant lasers, may sound…
An Ancient ‘Horizon Calendar’ Comes Into View Over Mexico City
Scientists suggest in a new study that ancient Mesoamericans tracked leap years using a sunlit horizon. …