The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, and now he can hear,” said one parent.
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.
It’s the most iconic image of our planet. Decades before the Artemis II mission, a group of astronauts experienced an Earth rising for the first time. This Earth Day, hear their story and the story of a photograph that changed the way we think about our place in the universe.
Promoters of free birthing reject any type of medical intervention during pregnancy or delivery. The movement has been trending on social media, but critics warn it poses serious risks.
The agency has approved far fewer new grants than it did in years past. A renewed effort to screen for disfavored terms and a loss of personnel are contributing.
For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next catastrophic quake.
In the Big Bend region, a portal to the early universe is enabled by the largest dark-sky reserve on Earth.
As SpaceX prepares to go public, Mr. Musk has proposed moonshots that differ from the company’s original aim of reaching Mars.
La frecuencia de los bólidos en los cielos de nuestro planeta parece haber aumentado en los últimos meses. La NASA y otros expertos en meteoros no se ponen de acuerdo sobre qué lo explica.
Active since last week, the Lyrids meteor shower is expected to reach peak viewing tonight.
In a year of grim climate and environment news, we’ve compiled several hopeful signs about our planet’s future.
The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree on what explains it.
Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life.
The space agency is counting on Jeff Bezos’ company to deliver equipment essential to the next moon landing, only two years away.
Bruce, a disabled kea parrot, is missing his top beak. The bird uses tools to keep himself healthy and developed a jousting technique that has made him the alpha male of his group.
The Earth slips behind the moon in an iPhone video taken by Reid Wiseman during NASA’s Artemis II mission, a sequel to the iconic Earthrise photo taken by Apollo 8.
An English zoologist, he wrote an immensely popular 1967 book arguing that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our lives. Objections in the scientific world ensued.
Scientists in Sweden made an unexpected discovery when they exposed the fish to the illegal drug as well as another substance.
The kea gained fame for learning to use a pebble to groom himself. Scientists were astounded by his next innovation.
A scientist and leader in the organic farming movement, she popularized the “soil food web,” an understanding that soil is a complex realm of microorganisms.
Según un nuevo estudio, estos peces de aguas profundas acabaron utilizando señuelos brillantes no solo para pescar, sino también para atraer a sus parejas.
Rescue crews mounted a likely final push to save a stranded humpback whale off the coast of Northern Germany on Friday. The large mammal, nicknamed “Timmy,” captivated the nation after it was stranded in shallow waters for weeks.
David Eisenman sought to better understand how to prevent school shootings and other targeted violence, until the Department of Homeland Security halted the research.
The deep-sea fish ended up with glowing lures not just to snag meals, but also to attract mates, a new study finds.
The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.
The four astronauts spoke at a news conference Thursday afternoon at Johnson Space Center in Houston about their journey around the moon and back to Earth.
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.
After starting a new job, Daniel Babin can afford to shop for a pricey vintage guitar and rethink living with 17 roommates.
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.
Detenciones por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol, problemas de pareja, acusaciones de beber en secreto: el síndrome de autocervecería puede causar estragos en la vida y la reputación de las personas.
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.
