A new study blames a comet fragment for the death of the dinosaurs 66 million years…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again
NASA’s sole means of sending commands to the distant space probe, launched 44 years ago, is…
Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA Shuttle Scientist, Dies at 75
As the space agency’s first female payload specialist, she conducted experiments about the impact of weightlessness…
China’s Mars Mission Is Up Next to Orbit the Red Planet
The Tianwen-1 mission is scheduled to be the second of three new visitors to Mars this…
Mars Mission From U.A.E. to Arrive and Orbit Red Planet
The Hope spacecraft will fire its engines on Tuesday, aiming to be grappled by the planet’s…
Life on Venus? The Picture Gets Cloudier
Despite doubts from many scientists, a team of researchers who said they had detected an unusual…
Jeff Bezos Renews Focus on Blue Origin, Which Has Been Slower to Launch
The Amazon founder started his private rocket company in 2000, but its busiest phase could just…
SpaceX’s Starship Launches and Again Crashes in Test of Prototype
After defying the F.A.A. during its last test flight in December, the company got approval but…
The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again
After decades of fits and starts, the multibillion dollar successor to the Hubble telescope is expected…
To Get on This SpaceX Flight, You Don’t Have to Be Rich, Just Lucky
Jared Isaacman, 37-year-old founder of Shift4 Payments, is chartering a trip to orbit and raffling a…