Space & Cosmos
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The Lyrids Meteor Shower Will Peak in Night Skies
All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers…
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Dazzling Skies, U.F.O. Sightings and Real-Life Monsters: The Week in Narrated Articles
This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters…
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Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics
Meanwhile, in 2020 a group of 170 experts known as the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative published a new consensus value…
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A Billionaire Names His Team to Ride SpaceX, No Pros Allowed
All it takes is luck and a dream, and a 38-year-old billionaire. Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, announced on…
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Note to Future Space Travelers: Prepare for a Shrinking Heart
In space, your heart gets smaller. In a study published on Monday in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the…
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Glynn S. Lunney Dies at 84; Oversaw NASA Flights From Mission Control
Glynn S. Lunney, the NASA flight director who played a major role in America’s space program and was hailed for…
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Those Mystery Lights Above Seattle and Portland? They Weren’t Meteors.
The mysterious bright lights streaking across the Pacific Northwest’s night sky on Thursday were not birds, planes or meteors, but…
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The Water on Mars Vanished. This Might Be Where It Went.
“This means that Mars has been dry for quite a long time,” said Eva Scheller, a Caltech graduate student who…
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NASA’s Last Rocket
Eleven years in the making, the most powerful NASA-built rocket since the Apollo program at last stands upright. Framed by…
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SpaceX to Test Launch Another Prototype of Rocket to Mars
Two spectacular flights, two spectacular crash landings. Will the third time be the charm? On Wednesday, SpaceX is preparing for…
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NASA Sent a Secret Message to Mars. Meet the People Who Decoded It.
As NASA’s Perseverance rover fell through the Martian atmosphere last week, a video camera on the spacecraft captured the breakneck…
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Watch Video From NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars
What is it like to land on Mars? Now you can watch, in riveting, high-definition clarity as if you were…
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A Famous Black Hole Gets a Massive Update
Sometimes, depending on circumstance, this endgame collapse is marked by a stupendous supernova explosion. In this case, however, Dr. Miller-Jones…
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NASA Will Listen for Thumps From Its Rover’s Arrival on Mars
When the Perseverance rover sets down on Mars on Thursday, another NASA spacecraft already there will be listening for the…
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Mars Mission From the U.A.E. Begins Orbit of Red Planet
The first in a parade of three new visitors to Mars has arrived. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates became…
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Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses
Two of the knots, they concluded, were probably small galaxies with small internal motions being cannibalized by the big galaxy.…
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A Winter Solstice, a Meteor Shower, Jupiter and Saturn Walk Into Your Night Sky
While it’s been a terrible year in a lot of ways, 2020 has had some impressive astronomical occurrences. Remember Comet…
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The Newest Guardians of the Galaxy Are Run by the U.S. Military
The United States Space Force, the newest branch of the American military, created to protect the country’s galactic interests, has…
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This Solstice, Solace for the Darkness
A rare conjunction of planets serves as a reminder that there is more to the universe than just ourselves. Source
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‘Heroes of the Future’: NASA Picks 18 Astronauts for Moon Mission Training
NASA on Wednesday introduced the group of astronauts it has chosen for upcoming missions to the moon. The program, called…
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