The Tianwen-1 mission is scheduled to be the second of three new visitors to Mars this…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
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…
Five Takeaways From the Developing Space War Between China and the U.S.
The Biden administration is inheriting the menace of Chinese antisatellite arms as well as an innovative…
How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and China
The Biden administration faces not only waves of Chinese antisatellite weapons but a history of jumbled…
George Carruthers, Whose Telescopes Explored Space, Dies at 81
At a time when there were few other Black astrophysicists, he developed a telescopic device that…