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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
These Microbes May Help Future Martians and Moon People Mine Metals
An experiment aboard the space station showed that bacteria were effective at extracting rare earth elements…
Looking for Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft increases the number of habitable exoplanets thought…
The International Space Station: 20 Years of Promise, Peril and Fun
Humanity has never built anything like the outpost that orbits Earth about 240 miles above the…
Home Sweet Home in Orbit
A visual tour of the International Space Station, humanity’s high-tech home in the sky. …
How the Space Station Became a Base to Launch Humanity’s Future
Once derided as a poster child for government waste, the outpost in orbit is now seen…
NASA’s Asteroid Mission Packs Away Its Cargo. Next Stop: Earth.
The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft stowed the rock and dust it collected from Bennu, setting itself up to…
There's a Blue Moon on Halloween
Halloween will be the first blue moon visible in every time zone since 1944. Might be…
There’s Water and Ice on the Moon, and in More Places Than NASA Once Thought
Future astronauts seeking water on the moon may not need to go into the most treacherous…
NASA Mission Springs a Small Leak After Touching an Asteroid
The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft collected rock and dirt samples from Bennu, but it appears to be losing…