A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.
Centuries-old European tales about Gold Coast traders adulterating precious metals hundreds of years ago are challenged by the famous Whydah Gally shipwreck.
The e-commerce giant is buying Globalstar, a satellite communications company, as it aims to expand its own satellite internet service to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
New video shows the moment the Orion capsule opened after landing last week. Inside were the Artemis II astronauts who had completed a 10-day mission around the moon.
Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests.
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A unique “choreography” between two ant species suggests a distinctive partnership in which one provides a carwash service to the other.
Los astronautas rompieron varios récords y pudieron estudiar partes de la cara oculta de la Luna.
After splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, the Artemis II crew members reunited with their friends, families and fellow NASA astronauts in Houston on Saturday. Their voyage was the first trip by humans into deep space in more than half a century.
The four astronauts made an emotional return to Houston a day after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at the end of their 10-day lunar journey.
As “the first nerd to enter poker,” he helped transform a game long ruled by intuition into one based on game theory, probability and logic.
Durante 10 días, los astronautas de la misión de sobrevuelo lunar de la NASA han logrado algo casi imposible.
Canada’s technical expertise in space robotics got the country a seat to the moon, and then its cultural identity took center stage on the Artemis II mission.
A mission that took four astronauts farther than any human has ever traveled in the history of mankind has made people feel a little trippy.
The four astronauts aboard Artemis II splashed down at 8:07 p.m. Eastern time in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego on Friday, concluding their historic 10-day mission, the first to send humans to the moon in more than 50 years.
La tripulación de la NASA amerizó en el océano Pacífico, cerca de San Diego, con lo que finaliza un viaje que llevó a los seres humanos al espacio sideral por primera vez desde 1972.
As the spacecraft bobs in the Pacific Ocean, recovery personnel from NASA and the U.S. Navy are out at sea, tracking the capsule and other pieces of jettisoned hardware.
The Artemis II crew returns to Earth after a historic lunar flyby.
He helped lead what became known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, which showed that mental impairment is highly correlated with low socioeconomic status.
Los cuatro astronautas a bordo de la cápsula Orión se disponen a amerizar en el océano Pacífico el viernes. Esto es lo que debes saber.
Over 10 days, the astronauts of NASA’s lunar flyby mission have achieved the near impossible.
Here’s what you need to know about Artemis II and the splashdown of the Orion capsule.
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Take a tour of the room where the team behind the Artemis II mission works day and night.
A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about digital consumption. Also: A failure of leadership; deconstructing Trump-speak; “moon joy.”
Los astronautas de la misión tienen horarios programados para el desayuno, la comida y la cena con menús basados en sus preferencias personales y necesidades nutricionales.
After a successful flight around the moon, the astronauts are relying on a flawed heat shield to protect them as they re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.
The Artemis II crew prepared for their return home and NASA inspected the exterior of the Orion spacecraft, which is scheduled to land in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California on Friday.
Space Junk is a new publication from the fashion editor Jack Mills.
The mission is seen as a key step toward resuming crewed lunar landings. Artemis II’s four astronauts are scheduled to land in the waters off Southern California on Friday.
Today’s illicit chemists can quickly cook up drugs far more dangerous than fentanyl.
Times reporters were given access to a small operation on the frontier of illicit drugs.
Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures.
The crew of the NASA mission had a quiet day as they flew home toward Earth.
La Casa Blanca y la NASA publicaron imágenes registradas por las cámaras de los cuatro astronautas de la misión Artemis II.
See the photos taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their moon flyby.
While science can seem colorless and plain, NASA’s lunar crew members have brought expressiveness and emotion about their journey to mission control and the public.
The White House and NASA released imagery captured by the cameras of the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission.
El presidente quiere que terceros países reciban a los migrantes que no pueden ser devueltos a sus patrias. Para conseguirlo, casi todo está sujeto a negociación.
NASA’s Artemis II crew received a call from President Trump, who congratulated them for the successful lunar flyby.
The conversation celebrated a small, but significant, step in an ambitious plan for missions to the moon and Mars that Mr. Trump had set early in his first term.
Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side.
The astronauts will head into a communications blackout at 6:44 p.m. Eastern time as they become the first people to travel around the moon since 1972.
Mucho antes de que se produzca el despegue, no solo los astronautas sienten la carga de tal riesgo, sino también sus seres queridos.
Three Americans and one Canadian traveling on NASA’s Orion spacecraft surpassed a milestone set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970.
The four Artemis astronauts will pass behind the far side of the moon, seeing parts of the moon never observed with human eyes.
The Artemis II astronauts ventured farther from Earth than anyone else in the history of humanity on Monday, breaking the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.
The president wants third countries to take migrants who can’t be sent back home. To get that, almost everything is up for negotiation.
The crew shared an emotional moment with mission control and the family of Reid Wiseman, whose wife, Carroll, died in 2020, on the ground in Houston.
As Artemis II flies around the far side of the moon, our graphics editor Marco Hernandez describes what the astronauts are looking for.
Readers react to President Trump’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric. Also: Two moon missions, 58 years apart.
For the families of the Artemis II astronauts, the mission “begins at assignment.”
Should we just send robots?
The Artemis II crew sent an Easter message as they readied to travel around the moon.
The journey around the moon of three Americans and one Canadian is going into its sixth day, but it’s not too late to get caught up on it.
Ahead of a lunar flyby on Monday, the crew celebrated the astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s first spaceflight and got a special message from Charlie Duke, the Apollo 16 moonwalker.
The astronauts said they had lost track of which day it is on Earth on their transit to the moon.
We don’t have to travel to the moon to gain some of the insight that astronauts do.
Heartbreaking scenes of death from H.I.V. in Africa enraged and fueled the work of the Canadian AIDS activist and politician who died on Tuesday.
Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.
The Artemis II mission elicited deep feelings for many Americans, particularly in Houston, the home of mission control.
Forget futuristic glass domes filled with plants and high-tech infrastructure, Jared Isaacman, the head of NASA, says of humanity’s first space colonies. In reality, because of the cost of travel, they will most likely be scrappy bases surrounded by garbage.
These lunar resources could be valuable to us on Earth and in space.
The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can’t connect to the internet.
Las imágenes tomadas desde la cápsula Orión por el comandante de la misión, Reid Wiseman, muestran distintas vistas de nuestro brillante planeta azul.
Victor Glover, a former Navy test pilot, carefully maneuvered the Orion capsule in space around a discarded rocket stage. The demonstration is crucial for future moon landing missions.
The pictures were released on the third day of the first mission since 1972 to send people around the moon.
La NASA espera que el vuelo del Artemis II sea un paso hacia la plena reactivación de las ambiciones lunares estadounidenses.
La misión Artemis II no solo tiene que ver con la ciencia y la exploración. También forma parte de una crucial carrera espacial entre EE. UU. y China.
Inside the mystifying syndrome that can upend people’s lives and reputations.
The launch of Artemis II captured the tenor of the times in a country that can still do big things but seems forever mired in big problems.
With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the “trimates.”
On the Artemis II mission, four astronauts will work, exercise and sleep in a capsule that is about the size of two minivans for 10 days. In April 2025, National Geographic worked with NASA to film the astronauts at an Orion space capsule model in Houston.
The Artemis II mission isn’t just about science and exploration. It’s part of a high-stakes space race between the U.S. and China.
El retrete de la cápsula Orión es una innovación de la higiene personal en el espacio. Poco después de su salida, los astronautas de la misión a la luna reportaron que presentaba una falla (que parece ya estar resuelta).
Peter Frazier’s lab at Cornell worked to improve how blood was stored and transported for armed forces. Then he received a stop-work order.
With the Artemis II launch, NASA reignited its long-dormant ambitions for crewed lunar exploration.
La empresa se ha comprometido a debutar en junio, y Musk aspira a recaudar entre 50.000 y 75.000 millones de dólares con la salida, dijo una de las personas familiarizadas con la compañía.
Crowds gathered near the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday to watch as NASA launched four astronauts on a 10-day journey that will go around the moon.
En un mundo dividido políticamente, cuatro astronautas intentarán mostrar que el esfuerzo, la tenacidad y, sobre todo, la humanidad no tienen fronteras.
The U.S. space agency launched a lunar flyby Wednesday, but Beijing is pursuing its own space program with formidable focus. Here’s what we know about it, in photos and videos.
Space enthusiasts watched with awe and joy as a massive rocket roared into space on the first crewed flight to the moon in more than 50 years. Other Americans were detached, or oblivious.
The Universal Waste Management System aboard the Orion capsule is an innovation in deep space toiletry (it seems to be fixed now).
The Orion spacecraft will take four crew members and one commode around the moon and back as part of the Artemis II mission. In April 2025, National Geographic worked with NASA and filmed the astronauts at an Orion space capsule model in Houston.
The crew of four — three Americans and one Canadian — reached space on Wednesday on the first crewed journey to the moon since 1972.
After orbiting Earth, the Orion capsule will carry the astronauts to the moon and arrive by Monday night.
Future engineers and former space campers hope to infect people around them with enthusiasm for NASA’s latest moon mission.
Lucas Ye, age 8, designed the stuffed toy that will start floating when the Orion capsule reaches orbit.
While SpaceX and Blue Origin get much of the attention among rocket makers these days, traditional aerospace companies, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, built the vehicles for Artemis II.
It has been 50 years since humans last walked the lunar surface, and NASA’s efforts to get back there will take place in stages.
The Canadian Space Agency astronaut is the one Artemis II crew member who has not traveled to space.
Ms. Koch previously set a record for longest single spaceflight by a woman, and was a participant in the first all-female spacewalk.
Years of testing, emergency systems and sensors have gone into protecting the astronauts set to head to the moon.
An astronaut since 2013, Mr. Glover was also the first Black astronaut on a long duration International Space Station mission.
An initial public offering of Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company would most likely be a generational wealth event and one of the largest offerings ever.
As a child, Mr. Wiseman never imagined he could be an astronaut. Now he’s commanding NASA’s first mission to the moon since 1972.
Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds.
NASA will broadcast the launch of the Artemis II mission as well as holding live conversations with the crew during their time in space.
Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of chelicerates before the group hit it big on land.
Space Force meteorologists said there was an 80 percent chance that NASA’s Artemis II mission will have the conditions it needs.
Four astronauts of the Artemis II mission are preparing NASA for its next lunar landing.
Artemis II, which would be the first time anyone would travel this far from Earth since 1972, launches on April 1. Kenneth Chang, a reporter for The New York Times, describes how the mission is key to a U.S. goal.
El color es el naranja internacional, el tono de los trajes de vuelo de los astronautas del Artemis II en la primera misión a la Luna desde 1972.
It’s not just any orange. It’s International Orange.
A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar.
Overdose rates in the United States have surged with the emergence of new synthetic drugs. Matt Richtel reports from a lab in Pennsylvania where scientists are identifying new drug molecules that toxicology reports can’t detect.
Canada will send its first astronaut to the moon on a joint mission with the United States, but back on Earth, the relationship between the two countries is fraying.
No president since the Apollo era has pushed harder to return to the moon than President Trump. But he wants a space achievement that is about “more than getting rocks this time.”
Can the four astronauts of the NASA mission Artemis II make a difference in a distracted and divided world?
El autor de ciencia ficción habla de ‘Proyecto Hail Mary”, su novela científica que fue adaptada en una película protagonizada por Ryan Gosling.
NASA is sending four astronauts to space on a mission to circle the moon and test a life support system. The astronauts spoke to The New York Times in January before the mission was delayed until April because of technical issues.
As a new commercial era of space exploration accelerates, scientists are considering the physical culture of outer space. Dancers are well positioned to help.
Polling has consistently found that most people would prefer NASA spend money on things like monitoring climate change and averting asteroid collisions rather than human spaceflight.
Here's how NASA plans to send four astronauts on a trip around the moon, the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since the end of the Apollo program in 1972.
The four astronauts of the Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo in 1972, spoke to the news media leading up to Wednesday’s launch window.
De un momento a otro, Michael Fincke perdió el habla durante una misión en la Estación Espacial Internacional en enero. El episodio provocó una inusual evacuación de regreso a la Tierra.
The four astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — spoke from a prelaunch quarantine ahead of their scheduled Wednesday mission.
A long-term project to remove or modify dams may clear the way for endangered wild Atlantic salmon to swim freely up to the Sandy River. But it faces opposition from business and lawmakers.
Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions.
The astronaut, Michael Fincke, experienced a medical emergency in January that rendered him unable to speak, he said.
The Times called him “the world’s most highly regarded forensic criminologist,” but later in his career he faced accusations that he had hidden and fabricated evidence.
Her best-selling 1989 book, “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing,” based on her groundbreaking research, brought public awareness to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly detrimental behaviors like self-deception.
His research showed that Type 2 diabetes was caused by insulin resistance at the cellular level, a controversial idea that initially met with disbelief.
