EditorialA replica of William Herchel’s telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, England, June 10, 2023. (Jeremie Souteyrat/Thew New York Times)
EditorialA replica of William Herchel’s telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, England, June 10, 2023. (Jeremie Souteyrat/Thew New York Times)
EditorialA replica of William Herchel’s telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, England, June 10, 2023. (Jeremie Souteyrat/Thew New York Times)
EditorialA replica of William Herchel’s telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, England, June 10, 2023. (Jeremie Souteyrat/Thew New York Times)
EditorialA replica of William Herchel’s telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, England, June 10, 2023. (Jeremie Souteyrat/Thew New York Times)
EditorialThe park ranger and astronomer Kevin Poe looks through binoculars in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, May 11, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialThe park ranger and astronomer Kevin Poe looks through binoculars in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, May 11, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialNASA's S.O.F.I.A. (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) Makes its final flight to retirement from Palmdale airport Tuesday CA/USA Dec. 12, 2022.
EditorialGregory Robinson, director for the James Webb Space Telescope Program, at his office in the NASA Headquarters in Washington on Monday, July 11, 2022. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
EditorialGregory Robinson, director for the James Webb Space Telescope Program, at his office in the NASA Headquarters in Washington on Monday, July 11, 2022. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
EditorialA clock counts down the delivery of the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope, in the astronomy department of the University of Arizona, in Tuscon, June 23, 2022. (Rebecca Noble/The New York Times)
EditorialA clock counts down the delivery of the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope, in the astronomy department of the University of Arizona, in Tuscon, June 23, 2022. (Rebecca Noble/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft arrives at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 5, 2021, to be mounted on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch on Dec. 16, 2021. (Isaac Walton/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialThe Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft arrives at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 5, 2021, to be mounted on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch on Dec. 16, 2021. (Isaac Walton/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialPark visitors watch an astronomy presentation, “Explore the Milky Way,” given by a park ranger at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, where stargazers gathered to watch the Perseid meteor shower. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times)
EditorialPark visitors watch an astronomy presentation, “Explore the Milky Way,” given by a park ranger at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, where stargazers gathered to watch the Perseid meteor shower. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times)