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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won’t Be Able to Answer
NASA will spend 11 months upgrading the only piece of its Deep Space Network that can…
Why Mars Needs a Leap Year, Too
Alien civilizations on other worlds would need much more awkward contortions to their calendars than we…
A New Mini-Moon Was Found Orbiting Earth. There Will Be More.
The object, a car-size asteroid called 2020 CD3, won’t be here for long, and new telescopes…
China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side
The Chang’e-4 mission, the first to land on the lunar far side, is demonstrating the promise…
A Meeting in Orbit Demonstrates a Space Junk Solution
Two satellites docked together high above Earth on Tuesday, successfully extending the life of one that…
Sunspots and Stranded Whales: A Bizarre Correlation
A collaboration between biologists and an astronomer sought to add evidence to the idea that whale…
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA
She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who…
Julius Montgomery, Who Broke a Space-Age Race Barrier, Dies at 90
In the Jim Crow South, he was the first black professional to be hired at Cape…
Watch Mars Disappear Behind the Moon in the Early Morning Sky
In what is known as an occultation, Mars will briefly be blocked by the moon on…