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  4. SpaceX Starship Launch Ends With a Dramatic Water Landing

    President-elect Donald J. Trump joined Elon Musk, as his company’s prototype moon and Mars rocket carried out a sixth test flight that showed a mix of progress and setbacks.

     By Katrina MillerErica L. Green and Kenneth Chang

    The view from the Starship spacecraft during the launch on Tuesday.
    CreditSpaceX, via Associated Press

  1. SpaceX Starship’s Sonic Boom Creates Risk of Structural Damage, Test Finds

    An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

     By Eric Lipton

    The measurements of the actual sound and air pressure generated by SpaceX’s new Starship rocket during its fifth test launch last month are the most comprehensive publicly released to date.
    CreditSergio Flores/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  2. NASA Says Space Station Astronaut Is in ‘Incredible Health’

    The agency’s top medical official was responding to rumors that Suni Williams had lost an unusual amount of weight during an extended stay in orbit.

     By Kenneth Chang

    The NASA astronaut Suni Williams replaced particulate filters on the water recovery system, a component of a waste-and-hygiene compartment of the International Space Station’s bathroom, on Nov. 1.
    CreditJSC/NASA

  3. Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited

    Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

     By Jonathan O’Callaghan

    CreditJPL/NASA

  4. Elon Musk Helped Elect Trump. What Does He Expect in Return?

    The world’s richest man gave his money and time in campaigning for the president-elect and now is putting in his requests for a friendlier regulatory environment.

     By Eric LiptonKirsten GrindDavid A. Fahrenthold and Theodore Schleifer

    Elon Musk at a rally for former President Donald J. Trump in New York last month. Mr. Musk poured more than $100 million into Mr. Trump’s campaign.
    CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times

  5. Japanese Scientists Bet on an Ancient Material for Their New Satellite: Wood

    Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

     By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno

    Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holding a model of the satellite in October.
    CreditIrene Wang/Reuters

  1. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Already a Leader in Satellites, Gets Into the Spy Game

    The Pentagon needs what the company offers to compete with China even as it frets over its potential for dominance and the billionaire’s global interests.

     By Eric Lipton

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a spy satellite launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, Calif., in 2022.
    CreditPatrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  2. Space: The Final Fashion Frontier

    Prada and Axiom Space unveiled their NASA spacesuits, in the most far-out collaboration yet.

     By Vanessa Friedman

    The spacesuit designed by Axiom Space with Prada’s collaboration, which NASA will use for the Artemis III lunar mission.
    CreditAxiom, Prada

  3. NASA Launches Europa Clipper to Explore an Ocean Moon’s Habitability

    The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter.

     By Kenneth Chang

    The Jupiter moon Europa captured by the Juno spacecraft during a flyby in 2022. Oceans of water slosh beneath Europa’s surface under a shell of ice that could be more than 10 miles thick.
    CreditKevin M. Gill/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI, via Associated Press

  4. Scientists Seeking Life on Mars Heard a Signal That Hinted at the Future

    In 1924, a radio receiver built for the battlefields of World War I tested the idea that humans were not alone in the solar system, heralding a century of searches for extraterrestrial life.

     By Becky Ferreira

    CreditSeñor Salme

  5. Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System

    Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s out of this world.

     

    CreditEuropean Space Agency/Euclid Consortium/NASA; image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi

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Total Solar Eclipse 2024

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  1. Highlights From the Total Solar Eclipse’s Dark Path Through the U.S., Mexico and Canada

    People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow, the last time it will pass through so much of the continent until the 2040s.

     

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  2. The Eclipse Across North America

    What people in the path of totality were seeing and saying as the eclipse unfolded across the continent.

     By The New York Times

    CreditRenaud Philippe for The New York Times

  3. See the Total Solar Eclipse’s Shadow From Space

    An American weather satellite is capturing the movement of the moon’s shadow across North America during the total eclipse of the sun on Monday.

     By K.K. Rebecca Lai and William B. Davis

    CreditThe New York Times

  4. Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.

    If you can’t get enough of totality, or missed out this time, you’ll have three more chances in the next four years in destinations like Iceland, Spain, Egypt and Australia.

     By Danielle Dowling

    If you missed out on Monday’s total solar eclipse, which dazzled viewers in places like Burlington, Vt., you’ll have the chance to see another one starting in 2026 — but you may need a passport.
    CreditCassandra Klos for The New York Times

  5. Did You Really Need to Be There to See the Eclipse?

    For much of the 20th century, Rochester, N.Y., was the “imaging capital of the world.” For three and a half minutes on Monday, it was living up to its old nickname.

     By Christopher Valentine and Gideon Jacobs

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  1. Barnard’s Star Finally Has a Planet, and Possibly More

    For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest find is for real.

     By Dennis Overbye

    An artist’s impression of the Barnard Star b, the exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf six light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus.
    CreditM. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory

  2. Two Black Holes Are Giving the Cosmos a Fright

    The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief.

     By Dennis Overbye

    CreditAndrew Beardmore (Univ. of Leicester) and NASA/Swift

  3. This Black Hole Has a Cosmic Wingspan

    Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

     By Dennis Overbye

    CreditE. Wernquist/D. Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration)/M. Oei

  4. It’s Lights Out at a Cosmic Restaurant

    Palomar Observatory bids farewell to a tradition of napkin rings, cowbells and astronomical table conversation.

     By Dennis Overbye

    The 200-inch Hale Telescope of the Palomar Observatory, which went into operation in 1948, was the biggest and most important telescope on Earth for half a century.
    CreditBettmann/Getty

  5. Watch These Supernovas Explode Across Time

    For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar eruptions.

     By Dennis Overbye

    CreditNASA/SAO/CXC; Image Processing: NASA/SAO/CXC/J. Major

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    SpaceX Unable to Recover Booster Stage During Sixth Test Flight

    President-elect Donald Trump joined Elon Musk in Texas and watched the launch from a nearby location on Tuesday. While the Starship’s giant booster stage was unable to repeat a “chopsticks” landing, the vehicle’s upper stage successfully splashed down in the Indian Ocean.

    By Jamie Leventhal

     
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