The New York Times 2:49 pm on June 10, 2022
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Asteroid Samples May ‘Rewrite the Chemistry of the Solar System’

The flecks of rock were brought back to Earth by the Japanese space mission Hayabusa2 in December 2020.

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The New York Times 6:59 am on May 31, 2022
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.

Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on May 15, 2022
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Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon 2022: How to Watch

On Sunday night, Earth’s shadow will fall over the moon and make our natural satellite turn blood red.

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The New York Times 8:20 pm on April 14, 2022
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Hubble Telescope Zooms In on the Biggest Comet Ever Spotted

The space observatory helped scientists make a more precise measurement of the comet, which has a mass of 500 trillion tons and an appearance like burned toast.

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The New York Times 3:02 pm on February 8, 2022
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The First Quadruple Asteroid: Astronomers Spot a Space Rock With 3 Moons

Astronomers had already spotted two other rocks orbiting the asteroid known as 130 Elektra, and think more quadruple systems are out there.

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The New York Times 2:47 pm on February 2, 2022
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Astronomers Find a New Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth’s Orbit

The Trojan asteroid 2020 XL5, which follows the same path around the sun as our planet, was revealed only after a decade of searching.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on January 20, 2022
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A New Map of the Sun’s Local Bubble

At the edge of a vast region devoid of gas and dust, scientists find an explanation for “how all nearby star formation began.”

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The New York Times 7:48 pm on January 1, 2022
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How and Where to Watch the Quadrantid Meteor Shower and More That Peak in 2022

Find a dark place. Lay back, look up and see what the cosmos has to offer.

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The New York Times 11:05 pm on December 13, 2021
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Geminid Meteor Shower: How to Watch Its Peak in Night Skies

A picture from the meteor shower in 2020 highlights how brilliant this winter sky show can be.

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The New York Times 7:00 am on October 16, 2021
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How to Watch Nasa’s Launch to Jupiter

The elaborate 12-year journey of the robotic spacecraft will offer close encounters with some of the solar system’s least understood objects.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on October 15, 2021
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Why NASA Is Launching a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy

In a vast odyssey across the solar system, the mission will study asteroids known as Trojans that may contain secrets of how the planets ended up in their current orbits.

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The New York Times 7:16 pm on September 13, 2021
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The Rock That Ended the Dinosaurs Was Much More Than a Dino Killer

In seeking the origin story of the Chicxulub impactor, scientists hope to also unlock secrets about the origin of life itself.

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The New York Times 10:12 pm on July 28, 2021
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2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There.

The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos of the early solar system.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on May 28, 2021
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Will the Next Space-Weather Season Be Stormy or Fair?

As another 11-year cycle of solar activity begins, scientists debate how violent our stellar friend is likely to be.

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The New York Times 4:13 pm on April 21, 2021
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Lyrid Meteor Shower 2021: How to Watch

Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on March 23, 2021
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Oumuamua: It Came From Another Solar System

A piece of an extrasolar Pluto may have passed through our cosmic neighborhood, a new study suggests.

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The New York Times 7:30 am on March 2, 2021
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Once Upon a Time on Mars

A dune buggy is about to set off on behalf of its human owners to fulfill a primordial yearning.

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Ars Technica 12:15 pm on February 27, 2021
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Perseverance’s eyes see a different Mars

Perseverance's two Mastcam-Z imagers (in the gray boxes) are part of the rover's remote sensing mast.

The seven minutes of terror are over. The parachute deployed; the skycrane rockets fired. Robot truck goes ping! Perseverance, a rover built by humans to do science 128 million miles away, is wheels-down on Mars. Phew.

Percy has now opened its many eyes and taken a look around.

The rover is studded with a couple dozen cameras—25, if you count the two on the drone helicopter. Most of them help the vehicle drive safely. A few peer closely and intensely at ancient Martian rocks and sands, hunting for signs that something once lived there. Some of the cameras see colors and textures almost exactly the way the people who built them do. But they also see more. And less. The rover’s cameras imagine colors beyond the ones that human eyes and brains can come up with. And yet human brains still have to make sense of the pictures they send home.

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The New York Times 1:55 pm on February 26, 2021
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Hunting for a Giant Black Hole, Astronomers Found a Nest of Darkness

No Gargantua dwells at the heart of stellar cluster NGC 6397. Instead, a few dozen smaller black holes seem to be swarming around in there, throwing their considerable masses around.

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The New York Times 10:21 pm on February 21, 2021
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Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas

Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturn’s strange moon.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 12, 2021
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Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again

NASA’s sole means of sending commands to the distant space probe, launched 44 years ago, is being restored on Friday.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 11, 2021
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Aliens Must Be Out There

Why aren’t we looking for them?

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The New York Times 5:06 pm on January 4, 2021
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Missions to Mars, the Moon and Beyond Await Earth in 2021

Here’s a preview of what to expect in space and astronomy in the year to come.

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The New York Times 4:07 pm on December 21, 2020
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A Winter Solstice, a Meteor Shower, Jupiter and Saturn Walk Into Your Night Sky

One day that has room for three distinct astronomical events.

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The New York Times 6:01 pm on December 18, 2020
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Christmas Star 2020: The ‘Great’ Saturn and Jupiter Conjunction

A celestial meet-cute will unfold before our eyes on Monday. Here’s why you should be excited about that.

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The New York Times 7:04 pm on December 16, 2020
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China Moon Mission Brings Lunar Rocks to Earth, and New Competition to Space

The Chang’e-5 mission’s success highlights the progress of China’s space program, and growing rivalry with the United States.

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The New York Times 7:59 am on December 8, 2020
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Outer Space Just Got a Little Brighter

The universe is not as black as astronomers once thought.

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The New York Times 11:00 am on December 6, 2020
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Jupiter and Saturn Head for Closest Visible Alignment in 800 Years

On Dec. 21, Jupiter and Saturn will appear to be no more than a dime’s width apart in the night sky. The last time that could be seen was in 1226.

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The New York Times 5:01 am on December 5, 2020
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 Asteroid Journey Ends With a Hunt in Australia’s Outback

The Hayabusa2 mission cements Japan’s role in exploring the solar system, but finding its asteroid cargo presents one last challenge.

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The New York Times 3:10 pm on December 3, 2020
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A ‘Front-Row Seat’ to the Birth of a Comet

Astronomers are watching an object transform into a hyperactive comet that will head toward the inner solar system in the coming decades.

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The New York Times 5:10 am on November 23, 2020
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China to Collect Moon Rocks in a Mission Launching Soon

It has been four decades since lunar samples were brought to Earth, and the Chang’e-5 spacecraft’s bounty could have great scientific value.

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The New York Times 4:55 pm on November 19, 2020
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Arecibo Observatory, a Great Eye on the Cosmos, Is Going Dark

The radio telescope in Puerto Rico has to come down before it collapses.

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The New York Times 3:31 pm on November 16, 2020
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Leonid Meteor Shower: Best Time to See and How to Watch

Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.

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The New York Times 9:55 pm on October 21, 2020
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Video Shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REX Mission Crunch Asteroid Bennu

The spacecraft succeeded in pogo-sticking off the space rock, hinting that it may have been able to capture a large sample to bring back to Earth.

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The New York Times 4:04 pm on October 20, 2020
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When to Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REX Mission to Bennu Asteroid

The spacecraft will attempt to suck up rocks and dirt from the asteroid, which could unlock secrets of the solar system and could aid humanity’s ability to divert one that might slam into Earth.

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The New York Times 3:32 pm on October 19, 2020
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Orionids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch It Peak in Night Skies

Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on September 19, 2020
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On Venus, Cloudy With a Chance of Microbial Life

Astrobiologists shift their gaze, and speculations, to Earth’s broiling sister planet.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on September 11, 2020
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Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard?

Astrophysicists have recently begun hatching plans to find out just how weird Planet Nine might be.

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The New York Times 1:33 pm on August 11, 2020
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2020: Watch It Peak Tonight

Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.

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The New York Times 7:43 am on July 30, 2020
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Too Much Mars? Let’s Discuss Other Worlds

Two veteran space journalists discuss why so much attention and budget seems to be directed to the red planet.

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The New York Times 3:40 pm on July 27, 2020
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Coming of Age on Mars

In a new book, planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson recalls how the Red Planet drew her to become a scientist.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on July 25, 2020
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Why the ‘Super Weird’ Moons of Mars Fascinate Scientists

What’s the big deal about little Phobos and tinier Deimos?

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The New York Times 3:15 pm on July 17, 2020
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Closest Pictures Ever Taken of Sun Show Tiny Campfire Flares

Images of the new phenomenon were captured by Solar Orbiter, a joint European-NASA mission to study the sun.

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The New York Times 7:31 pm on July 15, 2020
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Comet NEOWISE: How to See It in Night Skies

Enjoy it while you can. The frozen ball of ice won’t return to the inner solar system for 6,800 years.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 22, 2020
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Small Worlds With Lava Oceans Might Have Given Us Meteorites

Researchers propose a new model to explain the formation of most of the meteorites that make it to Earth.

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The New York Times 6:30 am on June 2, 2020
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Going Viral, or Not, in the Milky Way

Is the pandemic a rehearsal for our own cosmic mortality?

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The New York Times 4:36 pm on May 18, 2020
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Jupiter’s Biggest Moons Started as Tiny Grains of Hail

A new model offers an explanation for how the Galilean satellites formed around the solar system’s largest world.

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The New York Times 4:27 pm on May 13, 2020
Tags: Comets ( 17 ), Solar System, Space and Astronomy ( 433 )

How to See Comet SWAN in Night Skies

Fresh from the outer solar system, the cosmos offers us a show that’s trailing a 10 million-mile tail.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on May 13, 2020
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This NASA Mission May Cause an Artificial Meteor Shower

A study says the DART mission’s collision with an asteroid near Earth may liberate enough debris to reach Earth’s atmosphere.

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The New York Times 4:27 pm on May 4, 2020
Tags: Comets ( 17 ), Meteors and Meteorites ( 31 ), Solar System, Space and Astronomy ( 433 )

Eta Aquarids: Watch Halley’s Comet’s Meteor Shower Peak in Night Skies

Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.

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