A recent visit the site of the first atomic bomb explosion offered desert vistas, (mildly) radioactive…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin.
Zebulon Scoville and others at NASA’s mission control in Houston spent Thursday righting the International Space…
Bezos' Company Loses Challenge to NASA SpaceX Lunar Lander Contract
The Government Accountability Office said a $2.9 billion award to SpaceX to build the next lunar…
Russia’s New Addition to the Space Station: When to Watch
The Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module will dock with the orbiting outpost on Thursday morning. Here’s what…
2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There.
The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos…
Meteor Shower in July: Time for the Southern Delta Aquarids to Peak
Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you…
50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon
The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar…
Is Jeff Bezos an Astronaut Now?
Blue Origin pinned custom astronaut wings to his flight suit. The Federal Aviation Administration may disagree.…
Astronomers See Moons Forming in Disk Around Distant Exoplanet
Scientists have never before gotten such a clear view of moons in the making. …
NASA InSight Mission Maps Mars on the Inside Down to the Core
NASA’s InSight mission revealed Mars’s inner workings down to its core, highlighting great differences of the…