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A View of the Heavens From Texas
Amateur astronomers gathered for the 34th Texas Star Party, which offered them a chance to gaze at a sky full of nothing but stars.
nytimes.com (14 days ago)
National Briefing | Science: Day of Firsts for a Spaceship
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the spaceship that will carry 500 people who have signed up for a trip to space, made its first powered flight and broke the sound barrier for its first time.
nytimes.com (25 days ago)
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Inches Closer to Space
“We will be going to space at the end of this year,” Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, said after the vessel, the SpaceShipTwo, made its first powered flight.
nytimes.com (25 days ago)
A Hush Falls Where Rockets Once Roared
After the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Titusville, Fla., a boomtown born of the space race, started to lose its footing.
nytimes.com (1 month and 3 days ago)
2 New Planets Are Most Earth-Like Yet, Scientists Say
Astronomers with NASA’s Kepler mission said the planets, orbiting a star 1,200 light-years away, appear capable of supporting life.
nytimes.com (1 month and 6 days ago)
Hawaii Approves Thirty Meter Telescope Plan
The project, backed by several universities, would build the world’s largest telescope atop the Mauna Kea volcano, at a cost of $1 billion.
nytimes.com (1 month and 11 days ago)
Asteroid Wanted in NASA Project
The $105 million proposal would begin planning on a two-stage program in which a robotic spacecraft would grab a small asteroid and drag it back toward Earth.
nytimes.com (1 month and 18 days ago)
New Clues to the Mystery of Dark Matter
Astronomers said they might be on the verge of finding out what makes up the dark matter that gives shape to the visible structures of the universe.
nytimes.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
Yvonne Brill, Rocket Scientist, Dies at 88
In the early 1970s, Mrs. Brill invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.
nytimes.com (1 month and 25 days ago)
Space Coast Showing Signs of an Economic Recovery
After a harsh economic downturn and the loss of 8,000 jobs at NASA when a shuttle program ended, Brevard County is recovering by diversifying beyond aerospace.
nytimes.com (1 month and 25 days ago)
Russian Spaceship Docks With Orbiting Station
A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.
nytimes.com (1 month and 26 days ago)
SCIENCE: YouTube Videos Unlock Meteor’s Secrets
Scientists around the world have been using videos made by regular citizens and uploaded to YouTube, to figure out where in space the meteor that exploded over Russia on Feb. 15 came from.
nytimes.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
In Asteroid’s Aftermath, a Sigh of Relief
Scientists say luck played a role in sparing Chelyabinsk, Russia, from devastation as a space rock exploded.
nytimes.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
Q & A: Do Spacecraft Carry IDs of Their Earthly Origins?
Pioneer 10 and 11 carry plaques intended to show where they came from and who made them, and other spacecraft contain information about Earth and humankind.
nytimes.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
NASA Shuts Down Database During Security Inquiry
As part of a security investigation, the agency shut down a large public database used by professionals and students, and it restricted foreign nationals’ access to its facilities.
nytimes.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
Better Asteroid Detection Needed, Experts Say
A former astronaut told a Senate panel that there would have been far more casualties if New York had been hit by a meteor instead of Siberia.
nytimes.com (2 months and 6 days ago)
SCIENCE: A Burst of Solar Power
A NASA physicist explains why scientists are increasingly concerned about the effect of solar flares on our wired world.
nytimes.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
Curiosity Rover Repaired, NASA Says
Engineers have repaired computer problems that stalled the craft, which they say should resume its work later this week.
nytimes.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
World Briefing | Asia: Kazakhstan: Space Station Crew Returns After a Daylong Delay
A Russian Soyuz capsule landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing home an American and two Russian astronauts from the International Space Station.
nytimes.com (2 months and 11 days ago)
Op-Docs: ‘The Man Who Sells the Moon’
This short documentary looks at Dennis Hope, a Nevada man who has made a living “selling” plots of land on the moon.
nytimes.com (2 months and 16 days ago)
SpaceX’s Cargo Delivery to Space Station Is Delayed
The cargo ship’s rendezvous with the International Space Station will now occur on Sunday at the earliest.
nytimes.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Dismissed as Doomsayers, Advocates for Meteor Detection Feel Vindicated
The meteor that rattled Siberia Friday brought new life to efforts to deploy adequate asteroid detection tools.
nytimes.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
Opinion: Beware of Errant Asteroids
Nature is firing a shot across our bow to direct our attention to the asteroids that make up the near-Earth object population. We should take the warning seriously.
nytimes.com (3 months and 11 days ago)
