Space & Cosmos
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Astronomers See Moons Forming in Disk Around Distant Exoplanet
Our solar system is home to a magnificent menagerie of moons, from icy ones filled with turbulent oceans to volcanic…
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Bezos Launches to Space, Aiming to Reignite His Rocket Company’s Ambitions
VAN HORN, Texas — Jeff Bezos, the richest human in the world, went to space on Tuesday. It was a…
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U.S. Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens
WASHINGTON — The government still has no explanation for nearly all of the scores of unidentified aerial phenomena reported over…
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Venus Lacks Plate Tectonics. But It Has Something Much More Quirky.
Within the next decade or so, Venus will be visited by a fleet of spacecraft. This grand tour of the…
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How to Photograph the Moon
“A cold, calm night is best,” says Tim Easley, an illustrator in London who recently self-published a book of his…
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Why Geology Is Our Destiny
One day in October 1820 two young men, Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes, were hiking on a hill in Maine…
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Betelgeuse Merely Burped, Astronomers Conclude
Betelgeuse, to put it most politely, burped. In the autumn of 2019 the star, a red supergiant at the shoulder…
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Un accidente afortunado: el motor de Juno no encendió y eso mejoró su exploración de Júpiter
La fuerza de los campos magnéticos dentro de la Gran Mancha Azul está cambiando hasta en uno por ciento, cada…
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Mushballs and a Great Blue Spot: What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Pretty Clouds
For something that was to have been done and thrown away three years ago, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has a busy…
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NASA Just Visited the Solar System’s Biggest Moon
Time for your close-up, Ganymede. On Monday, the NASA spacecraft Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the largest of…
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New NASA Missions Will Study Venus, a World Overlooked for Decades
NASA is finally going back to Venus, for the first time in more than three decades. And a second time…
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A Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to Earth. Where Will It Land?
A piece of China’s largest rocket is tumbling back to Earth this weekend. No one really knows when or where…
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Watch the Eta Aquariids Meteor Shower 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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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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