Space & Cosmos
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Astronomers Found a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death
When our sun enters its death throes in about five billion years, it will incinerate our planet and then dramatically…
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Who are William Shatner’s crewmates?
Three other passengers will join Mr. Shatner on Wednesday’s flight: Audrey Powers, a Blue Origin vice president who oversees New…
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How much does a ticket to space on New Shepard cost? Blue Origin isn’t saying.
Blue Origin has declined to publicly state a price for a ticket to fly on New Shepard. The company is…
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Many ‘Star Trek’ fans are eager to see William Shatner boldly go to space.
The voyages of Captain James T. Kirk and the starship Enterprise in the 1960s created a fandom that has expanded…
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Did a Meteor Explode Over New Hampshire? That May Explain the Boom.
The theories lit up the internet: An earthquake must have caused a prolonged boom that shook homes on Sunday morning…
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Bezos Reaches for a Star
Mr. Branson and Mr. Bezos have made the billionaire space race more literal and personal, and often speak in dreamier…
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Antony Hewish, Astronomer Honored for the Discovery of Pulsars, Dies at 97
Antony Hewish, a pioneer of radio astronomy and a discoverer of a surprising class of stars known as pulsars, for…
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The Secret War Over Pentagon Aid in Fighting Wildfires
In July, as wildfires tore through the American West, President Biden met with the region’s governors to find better ways…
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Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company Accused of Toxic Culture and Safety Issues
Former and current employees at Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one…
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A Strange Comet Erupted 4 Times in a ‘Super Outburst’
This past Saturday, a speck of light shimmering in the shadows behind Jupiter erupted. And then it kept erupting, with…
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This May Be the First Planet Found Orbiting 3 Stars at Once
“‘Star Wars’ missed a trick,” said Rebecca Nealon from the University of Warwick in England, a co-author on the paper.…
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Intelligence Agencies Pushed to Use More Commercial Satellites
WASHINGTON — A cluster of satellites operated by an American company called HawkEye 360 looked down on the Middle East…
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What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program
I spend a lot of time lately thinking about a fungus called Pilobolus. It lives on dung, mostly from cows…
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Where NASA Will Send Its First Robotic Moon Rover to Search for Ice
NASA has been planning for years to send a robotic rover to the moon’s polar regions. Water ice trapped at…
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Inspiration4 Astronauts Beam After Return From 3-Day Journey to Orbit
After three days in orbit, a physician assistant, a community college professor, a data engineer and the billionaire who financed…
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Who Gets Sick in Space? Orbital Tourists May Offer Better Clues.
Doctors have poked and prodded NASA astronauts for years, and the astronauts, as government employees, have largely acceded to their…
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SpaceX Launches Astronaut Crew Like No Other on Orbital Adventure
Read updates on SpaceX’s splashdown from orbit. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — A SpaceX rocket lifted off on Wednesday night…
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‘Very Ordinary’ Astronauts Prepare for an Extraordinary Launch to Space
[Follow live updates and news from SpaceX’s return to Earth.] One is a 29-year-old physician assistant living in Memphis, a…
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The Rock That Ended the Dinosaurs Was Much More Than a Dino Killer
Dr. Gulick also noted that the study highlighted the hazards that asteroids pose across time, including risks faced by our…
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On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Drilled the Rocks It Came For
This time, the rock did not disappear. After a perplexing failure last month, NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, was able…
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