A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a…
Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
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,…
Boeing’s Starliner Launch Is Delayed, Again, Possibly Until Next Year
Problems with the capsule’s propulsion system require more troubleshooting, a setback for a program to carry…
NASA Says an Asteroid Will Have a Close Brush With Earth. But Not Until the 2100s.
Scientists have improved their forecast of the orbital path of Bennu, a space rock the size…
Perseid Meteor Shower: When and How to Watch
Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you…
Toshihide Maskawa, 81, Dies; Nobelist Helped Unlock a Cosmic Mystery
Why did the universe not destroy itself in the Big Bang, in a collision of matter…
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Will Raise Price of Space Flight Ticket
For a few minutes of weightlessness, customers will now have to pay at least $450,000, and…
Gilbert V. Levin, Who Said He Found Signs of Life on Mars, Dies at 97
Most planetary scientists dismissed his conclusions, but he remained steadfast that the experiment he conducted in…
Boeing’s Starliner Launch for NASA: When to Watch
After a flawed trip to orbit in 2019, the company is taking another crack at an…