Marina Koren
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David Higginbotham / NASA This Isn’t the Big Telescope Debut NASA Imagined
The James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to Hubble, is mired in controversy over its namesake.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Cost of William Shatner’s ‘Most Profound Experience’
The actor got his oldest-in-space record for free, but most commercial astronauts will have to pay for their historic milestones.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech A Mars Rover Explored a Wasteland and Found an Oasis
Billions of years ago, the view from the edge of Jezero crater would have been “spectacular.”
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Joe Raedle / Getty Jeff Bezos Is Being Knocked Back Down to Earth
After a summer of flying high, the space billionaire is facing a chaotic moment at his rocket company.
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NASA; Getty; The Atlantic ; Cedric von Niederhausern The Moon Is Leaving Us
And we can’t stop it.
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Patrick Pleul / Picture Alliance / Getty; The … A Question Only Elon Musk Can Answer
Why hasn’t he gone to space yet?
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SpaceX Elon Musk Must Be Pretty Relieved
SpaceX's first private astronauts have returned to Earth from a three-day stay in orbit.
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Thom Baur / Reuters SpaceX’s Private Astronauts Are Flying Higher Than the Space Station
The tourism era of American spaceflight is really, truly here.
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John Kraus / Inspiration4 Finally, a Private Spaceflight With a Billionaire You’ve Never Heard Of
SpaceX’s first space tourists are launching into orbit this week, and they seem almost normal.
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NASA; Getty; The Atlantic Schrödinger’s Planet
We’ll never have a final answer on whether Pluto is a planet.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Jeff Bezos Needs NASA to Listen to Him
NASA picked SpaceX to build its lunar lander, but the Amazon billionaire really, really wants the job too.
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Bill Brassard / NASA Someone Show NASA a Calendar
The agency has said it’s going to make it to the moon in 2024. That’s simply not possible.
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NASA; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Faraway Planets Don’t Seem So Distant Anymore
Astronomers are stepping up their attempts to unravel the mysteries of exoplanets.
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Oleg Novitskiy / Roscosmos The Day the Space Station Lurched
A recent arrival at the International Space Station created a little too much excitement.
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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / Benisty et al. This Picture Has Major Moon Potential
A newly discovered disk of cosmic dust around a faraway exoplanet could one day become something more.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Jeff Bezos Knows Who Paid for Him to Go to Space
The world’s richest man commissioned the rocket, but his Amazon empire—the customers and the workers—covered the bill.
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NASA Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Cross a Cosmically Controversial Line
The billionaire is preparing to fly to space—but where does space actually begin?
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NASA Maybe It’s Aliens, or Maybe It’s Volcanoes
Scientists are still trying to figure out what could be brewing on the planet next door.
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Isaiah J. Downing / Reuters Jeff Bezos Has Picked an Unusual Space Crew
No group like this one has ever gone to space before.
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Virgin Galactic / Reuters Richard Branson Pulled It Off
One space billionaire has now made it to space and back. Jeff Bezos is next.
