NASA Did Not Say It Found Life on Mars. But It’s Very Excited About This Rock.
The rock, studied by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has been closely analyzed by scientists on Earth who say that nonmicrobial processes could also explain its features.
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CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA Aims to Restore Space Station Traffic After SpaceX and Boeing Problems
With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.
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CreditNASA The Moon’s Most Shadowy Places Can’t Hide From NASA’s New Camera
ShadowCam, a NASA instrument aboard a South Korean spacecraft, is taking pictures of the moon where the sun doesn’t shine.
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CreditNASA/KARI/Arizona State University NASA Spent $450 Million on a Moon Rover. Now It’s Canceling the Mission.
Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s south pole.
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Is That a Meteor Over Manhattan? New Yorkers Glance Up, Then Shrug.
It had already been a weird few weeks in New York. Then a fireball streaked across the sky.
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CreditJanice Chung for The New York Times Watch These Supernovas Explode Across Time
For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar eruptions.
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The screenwriters of “Fly Me to the Moon” say they emphasized the facts of the Apollo 11 landing, but experts worry that clips can be misused.
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CreditNeil Armstrong/NASA, via Associated Press The malfunction, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October, may not be able to endure the harsh radiation around the planet Jupiter.
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Elon Musk’s Plan to Put a Million Earthlings on Mars in 20 Years
SpaceX employees are working on designs for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits, and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.
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A New York Times investigation found that Elon Musk exploited federal agencies’ competing missions to achieve his goals for space travel.
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The Chang’e-6 mission’s sample, which might hold clues about the origins of the moon and Earth, is the latest achievement of China’s lunar exploration program.
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CreditAgence France-Presse — Getty Images A Global Push Fixed the Ozone Hole. Satellites Could Threaten It.
A sharp increase in hardware orbiting Earth could mean more harmful metals lingering in the atmosphere, according to a new study.
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People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow, the last time it will pass through so much of the continent until the 2040s.
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CreditRenaud Philippe for The New York Times See the Total Solar Eclipse’s Shadow From Space
An American weather satellite is capturing the movement of the moon’s shadow across North America during the total eclipse of the sun on Monday.
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CreditThe New York Times Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.
If you can’t get enough of totality, or missed out this time, you’ll have three more chances in the next four years in destinations like Iceland, Spain, Egypt and Australia.
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CreditCassandra Klos for The New York Times Did You Really Need to Be There to See the Eclipse?
For much of the 20th century, Rochester, N.Y., was the “imaging capital of the world.” For three and a half minutes on Monday, it was living up to its old nickname.
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A new map of the center of the Milky Way galaxy reveals details of its magnetic fields
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Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.
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The late Jay Pasachoff inspired generations of students to become astronomers by dragging them to the ends of the Earth for a few precarious moments of ecstasy.
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CreditRoger Ressmeyer/CORBIS/VCG, via Getty Images Cosmic Forecast: Blurry With a Chance of Orbital Chaos
Astronomers have gotten better at tracking the motions of stars just beyond the solar system. But that’s made it harder to predict Earth’s future and reconstruct its past.
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Three Meteor Showers Are Active: How and When to Watch Fireball Season
The Southern Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids are reaching their peak this week. The Perseids, one of the best shows of the year, are also ramping up.
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Spaceman, Senator, V.P. Pick? Kamala Harris Sizes Up Mark Kelly.
The Arizona senator, a Navy veteran and former astronaut, has an almost impossibly strong political résumé. But an overlooked asset is his expertise on the Southern border.
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Elon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters to Texas
The social media and rocket companies are based in California, which the billionaire criticized for its recent transgender legislation.
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A Missy Elliott Song Travels to Venus at the Speed of Light
NASA sent the song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” from a radio dish in California last week. It took 14 minutes to travel the 158 million miles.
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TimesVideoSpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Fails in Orbit
The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket failed on an attempt to deploy the company’s Starlink internet satellites, ending a streak of more than 300 successful Falcon 9 launches.
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NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts
In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in the troubled spacecraft to get them home.
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William E. Burrows, Historian of the Space Age, Is Dead at 87
In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”
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TimesVideoEurope Rejoins the Space Race With New Rocket
The European Space Agency launched the Ariane 6 from French Guiana.
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Richard M. Goldstein, Who Helped Map the Cosmos, Dies at 97
Using ground-based radars, he pioneered measurement techniques that scientists now use to chart geographical changes on Earth.
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Europe Rejoins Space Race but New Rocket’s Flight Ends in Anomaly
Ariane 6 reached orbit on Tuesday. But a problem made the European Space Agency rocket deviate from its flight plan late in the mission.
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