Marina Koren
When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
A recent mission atop a Hawaiian volcano shows humans still have much to learn before they set foot on another world.
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Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty ... A Soda Company’s Long Obsession With Outer Space
A proposal for a space-based ad is only the latest iteration of Pepsi’s fascination with the skies.
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D3sign / Getty / EHT / National Science ... The Dark Saga of Katie Bouman
How a young scientist got sucked into the black hole of the internet
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Courtesy of Haystack Observatory The Hidden Shipping and Handling Behind That Black-Hole Picture
The mesmerizing image of a cosmic wonder required a rather old-school approach to piece together.
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Charlie Riedel / AP An Abrupt End to a Historic Moon Mission
Beresheet, a lander made by an Israeli nonprofit, was just miles from the lunar surface when it malfunctioned.
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ROBERT MARKOWITZ / AFP / Getty / The ... What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
An unprecedented and illuminating study monitored identical twins, one in space and one on Earth.
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Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al An Extraordinary Image of the Black Hole at a Galaxy’s Heart
Never before have scientists photographed the darkest points in the universe.
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Jim Lo Scalzo / Getty Why Trump Wants to Go to the Moon So Badly
The administration has vowed to return Americans to the lunar surface in 2024 “by any means necessary.”
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Johnson Space Center / NASA The Original Sin of NASA Space Suits
They were never designed to fit everyone perfectly.
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Elise Amendola / AP On Pluto, It’s Been Spring Since 1990
Earth has the best springtime in the solar system.
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NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona / ... The Mysterious Exploding Asteroid
A NASA spacecraft reached a space rock and found it orbited by tiny moons—a phenomenon that “has never been seen before in any solar-system object.”
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Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us ... What Would a Dog Do on Mars?
New art from NASA imagines a rosy but unrealistic future of canines on the distant planet.
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Johnson Space Center / NASA NASA Could Go to the Moon Next Year
The agency is willing to ditch its own billion-dollar rocket in favor of a commercial one, to meet a very tight deadline.
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Courtesy of SpaceX Minimalism Goes to Space
Decades after the first people reached Earth’s orbit, the aesthetics of spaceflight are changing.
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NASA Elon Musk Had a Great Week
What SpaceX’s triumphant mission means for American spaceflight
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NASA Houston, We Have a Dragon
The International Space Station and SpaceX’s new capsule for humans are now flying above Earth as one.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Elon Musk’s Emotional Response to a Space Milestone
The space entrepreneur acknowledged the pressure of trying to help NASA launch Americans to space again.
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Mike Blake / Reuters A Historic Rocket Launch Lights Up the Night
SpaceX is one step closer to returning human spaceflight to U.S. soil.
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What’s So Special About the Next SpaceX Launch
Elon Musk’s company is on the edge of a new era in American human spaceflight.
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Johnson Space Center / NASA The NASA Decision Russia Didn’t Like
The International Space Station partners had differing opinions about a pivotal U.S. launch.
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Johnson Space Center / NASA NASA Is Rushing to the Moon
In the agency’s most ambitious dreams, it will be testing moon-landing systems within the next five years.
