Marina Koren
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NASA / Chris Gunn The Biggest ‘Oh No’ Moment in the Solar System
Everything has to go right for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The Atlantic NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case.
A spacecraft is on its way to nudge a distant asteroid.
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Aleksandr Maksimkin / Getty Let’s Talk About Brines. No, Not That Kind.
The solar system is full of brines, and they're crucial to the search for extraterrestrial life.
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ODPO / NASA; The Atlantic Maybe Don’t Blow Up Satellites in Space
Just look at the trouble the debris from Russia’s missile test already caused for the International Space Station.
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Mark Felix / AFP / Getty The Uncomfortable Truths of American Spaceflight
NASA has pushed its next moon landing to 2025. But why is it trying to go at all?
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Tinker Street / Brenton Little / Gallery Stock We’re Gonna Need Another Space Telescope
And this one is going to search for other Earths, around other suns.
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Lockheed Martin / NASA NASA’s Mission to Jupiter Has Nothing to Do With Jupiter
The tiny asteroids that follow the planet around have secrets to tell.
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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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