Marina Koren
Before joining in 2015, Marina was a politics and breaking-news reporter at National Journal. She has written for Smithsonian magazine, Psychology Today, Popular Mechanics, and other publications. At The Atlantic, Marina writes about science, with a focus on space exploration.
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Event Horizon Telescope Behold, the Bottomless Pit Holding Everything Together
Astronomers have captured the Milky Way’s supermassive, mysterious abyss, 27,000 light-years from Earth.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Mars’s Soundscape Is Strangely Beautiful
Microphones have captured the whirring and pings of a hard-working rover—and the rush of a gentle Martian wind.
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Alamy; The Atlantic Elon Musk Already Showed Us How He’ll Run Twitter
For a hint at how Twitter will fare under its new owner, consider how he operates his other enterprises.
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H. Richer / ESA / NASA The Cutest Thermonuclear Explosion in the Universe
Astronomers have captured evidence of a “micronova” on a certain kind of star.
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JPL / NASA Remember Uranus?
You know, the seventh planet from the sun? It could use some attention.
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Patrick Pleul / Getty Will Elon Musk Go Full Future-of-Civilization on Twitter?
Of all the things Musk says are good for humanity, this one is not like the others.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Of Course Elon Musk Wanted Twitter
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla—and the richest person in the world—is obsessed with his version of free speech.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute The Long Goodbye to Saturn’s Rings
The planet’s defining feature is slowly disappearing.
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NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon We’ve Found 5,000 Exoplanets and We’re Still Alone
So far, the search for a truly Earth-like world has turned up empty.
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L. Calçada / ESO A Plot Twist in the Milky Way
Astronomers have cracked a mystery 1,000 light-years from Earth.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Now We’re Just Throwing Trash at the Moon
Discarded rocket hardware just left a crater the size of a basketball court on the lunar surface.
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Mariana Suarez / AFP / Getty The War on Ukraine Is Testing the Myth of Elon Musk
The SpaceX CEO’s much-praised move to help keep the country online isn’t the magical fix it may seem.
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Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty The Russian Invasion Touches Outer Space
The long-held idea that earthly conflict can’t tarnish something as lofty as space travel is only a platitude, not a certainty.
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Space Frontiers / Hulton Archive / Getty Our Millennial Space Telescope Hasn’t Burned Out Yet
The astronomy community is buzzing about the newest space telescope on the block, but Hubble is still going strong.
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NASA / ESA If We Ever Travel to Another Star, We’re Going Here
Astronomers may have found another planet around Proxima Centauri, the sun’s closest neighbor.
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SpaceX What’s Standing in Elon Musk’s Way?
The SpaceX CEO is pushing to speed his Starship off the Earth, but encountering some friction.
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NASA / JPL; The Atlantic Our Solar System in True Color Is Really Something Else
Venus is white. So is the sun. They’re beautiful anyway.
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Ron Zellar / NASA; Getty; The Atlantic We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees
A collection of tree seeds that went round and round the moon was scattered far and wide back home.
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Q. Daniel Wang / ESA / NASA Astronomy’s Most Dazzling Era Is About to Begin
The James Webb Space Telescope is now about 1 million miles from Earth, and almost ready to scan the cosmos.
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NASA / SDO; The Atlantic We Booped the Sun
For such a familiar celestial body, the sun is still very mysterious—but we’re getting closer to it than ever before.
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