Marina Koren
The Moment That Made Neil Armstrong’s Heart Rate Spike
Real-time data from the Apollo 11 astronauts, carefully monitored by Mission Control, capture the frenzied maneuvers that put men on the moon.
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Luke Sharrett / Getty Images The Mystery of Moon Water
The lunar supply won’t be anything like the stuff on Earth, but NASA wants it anyway.
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NASA The Exquisite Boredom of Spacewalking
A trip outside the International Space Station is, at its core, a home-improvement project.
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ESO / M. Kornmesser / Nick Risinger A Dazzling Quarter Century of Exoplanet Discovery
The next time the Nobel Prize recognizes exoplanet science, it could be for the detection of signs of life on another world.
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Jae C. Hong / AP / Bill Ingalls ... NASA Hands Elon Musk a Reality Check
A shared effort to deliver NASA astronauts to space recently got a little awkward.
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Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters SpaceX Has Starry-Eyed Ambitions for Its Starship
Elon Musk has laid out an ambitious future for his spaceship project, the effort to deliver people to the moon and Mars.
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NASA The Satellites Were Never Supposed to Launch
Two years after illegally launching tiny satellites into orbit, a start-up is trying to convince regulators it’s going to play by the rules.
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SARAO The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its Center
Astronomers have found radio-emitting structures jutting out from our galaxy’s black hole.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech ‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’
The second known visitor to our cosmic neighborhood from another star is making quite an entrance.
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NASA SpaceX Missed Some Urgent Emails About a Satellite Standoff
Stopping collisions in space starts with good communication.
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ESA / Hubble / M. Kornmesser An Exoplanet Like No Other Yet Found
K2-18b probably can’t host life as we know it, but it orbits in a cosmic sweet spot where water vapor in the atmosphere could turn into liquid.
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NASA A Second Failed Moon Landing
India lost contact with its spacecraft just before touchdown. Why is it so hard to stick a lunar landing?
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How to Plan a Family Around an Interplanetary Mission
For would-be parents working on the historic Voyager mission, the best time to have children was in the window between planetary stops.
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NASA Why Soviets Sent Dogs to Space While Americans Used Primates
Researchers didn’t know how people would react to weightlessness. So they sent animals first.
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ESO / M. Kornmesser A Glowing Clue in the Search for Alien Life
Astronomers say potential life on planets around flaring stars might find a creative way to survive.
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NASA A Cosmic Rarity Found in Antarctic Snow
The isotope iron-60, produced when a star explodes, is hidden in some of Earth’s most isolated places.
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Indian Space Research Organisation Handout/Reuters Five Stories We’re Watching
Atlantic writers look ahead at India’s moon landing, WeWork’s giant IPO filing, Taylor Swift’s Lover, and more.
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NASA / JPL The Aging Spacecraft of Deep Space
NASA is rationing watts to keep its oldest mission going.
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Courtesy of DoubleTree by Hilton The Great NASA Bake-Off
High-tech agriculture would keep far-flung astronauts alive, but making something delicious would keep them happy.
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Joan Wong; Photos courtesy of NASA The Coming End of an Era at NASA
Soon, if no mission returns to the moon, no one on Earth will have set foot on another world.
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AP The Soviet Space Program Was Not Woke
Sending the first women into space isn’t the same as developing an astronaut program that values equality.
