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New York Times Space & Cosmos
SpaceX Mission: How to Watch the Inspiration4 Launch
Here’s what you need to know about the three-day orbital journey of four Americans, none of…
SpaceX's Latest Mission Will Launch Four People Into Orbit
The Inspiration4 mission shows private spaceflight’s promise, but also how far it has to go before…
The Rock That Ended the Dinosaurs Was Much More Than a Dino Killer
In seeking the origin story of the Chicxulub impactor, scientists hope to also unlock secrets about…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Stashes First Mars Rock Sample
The rock, sealed in a tube, is the first of many the robotic explorer will collect…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Drills Rock Samples Successfully
After an earlier drilling attempt mysteriously failed, the robotic mission collected the first tube of samples…
Carolyn Shoemaker, Hunter of Comets and Asteroids, Dies at 92
After her children left for college, she unexpectedly became astronomy’s record-setting spotter of unidentified objects hurtling…
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms
A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a…
Deflecting an Asteroid Before It Hits Earth May Take Multiple Bumps
After years of shooting meteorites with a special gun owned by NASA, researchers highlighted challenges for…
Saturn’s Rings Are Like a Seismometer That Reveal the Planet’s Core
Convulsions in the planet’s interior are picked up in the region known as the C ring,…