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.
An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon that so far exists only in theory.
They can shake off those winter doldrums by hunting for Easter eggs, running the bases at Brooklyn Cyclones’ ballpark or gliding down Slide Hill on Governors Island.
The episode, involving a group of sperm whales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery.
A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team of scientists and glass artists.
A biotech start-up is testing a novel way of efficiently producing pharmaceutical drugs.
A recipient of his profession’s prestigious Fields Medal, he devised an algorithm that helps solve mathematical “singularities.” It now permeates the field.
New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.
La crisis energética desatada por la guerra en Irán podría ya ser peor que las crisis del petróleo de la década de 1970. Así es como está trastornando vidas.
La agencia fija metas y plazos concretos para impulsar la exploración espacial y recuperar la confianza en su misión.
The energy crisis unleashed by the war in Iran may already be worse than the oil shocks of the 1970s. Here’s how it’s upending lives.
The San Francisco school board will vote on a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns.
Genetic material preserved in ancient grape seeds reveals when, and how, humans meddled with wine grapes.
The agency announced the more specific plans and timelines after years of suggesting it may build a lunar outpost.
Australia used to incinerate the large fruit bats, but research suggests they bring hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits to the country’s economy.
“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos.
A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be.
His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.
A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.
Gerd Faltings demostró una conjetura que llevaba seis décadas sin resolverse, para lo que utilizó conexiones entre los números y la geometría.
Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.
In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.
An environmental engineer, he invented a biological method to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater, an advance that transformed the industry worldwide.
Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites in bird nests.
In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable.
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding program.
Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid-fueled rocket on his aunt’s farm.
The country aims to expand domestic satellite systems and cut dependence on American networks like Elon Musk’s Starlink.
It’s the first time since 2015 that the combination of the day and date associated with bad luck has recurred three times in a calendar year.
After postponing launch opportunities in February and March, the agency determined that four astronauts could proceed toward the first crewed lunar journey in more than 50 years.
The experience of the private Blue Ghost mission in lunar orbit a year ago highlights a growing number of “red alert” incidents above Earth’s neighbor.
Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes.
A group of scientists and law enforcement officials are pointing to the role moss can play to help solve crimes.
Erin McGuire ran a research network that studied how to get healthy food to marginalized populations around the world.
It takes backbone to solve an enigma like the “falling cat” problem.
When scientists unwittingly turned helium into a superfluid — a feat many thought was impossible — Dr. Leggett not only recognized what had happened but also explained how.
Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.
A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.
Most of the Van Allen Probe A, in orbit since 2012, will incinerate in Earth’s atmosphere, NASA said. But some pieces are expected to survive, posing a small risk to people on the ground.
La bola de fuego procedente del espacio fue detectada por una red de cámaras de observación del cielo en Bélgica, Francia, Luxemburgo, Países Bajos y Alemania.
Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the Amazon.
The fireball from space was spotted by a network of sky-watching cameras in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany.
The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.
Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents.
After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in what was an empty storefront along the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan.
The strawberry guava, one of the world’s worst invasive species, hinders forest restoration on the island while feeding its famous endangered primates.
New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.
She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production.
Kakapos, which are reclusive and flightless and can live as long as humans, are found only in New Zealand. They feed on the fruit of the rimu tree.
The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.
Agency officials promise fast reviews of new treatments while vowing they will not be a “rubber stamp” for the industry. But patients with rare diseases view recent decisions as signs that the doors are closing on their options.
A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft some of his most renowned instruments.
In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps.
Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut.
For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.
Giving up on mRNA is a dangerous decision.
The agency narrowed who can get the shot and added new study requirements that could cost the company tens of millions.
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.
On the test, American fourth and eighth graders posted results similar to scores from 1995. It was a sign of notable stagnation, even as other countries saw improvements.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates for top health posts are at odds with the drug industry, setting the stage for tense battles over regulatory changes.
Covid learning loss and chronic absenteeism aren’t going to fix themselves
Dr. Fauci testified before a House panel investigating Covid’s origins. The panel found emails suggesting that his aides were skirting public records laws.
A scientist finds beauty in the “visual synonyms” that exist in images seen through microscopes and telescopes.
A long-awaited new policy broadens the type of regulated viruses, bacteria, fungi and toxins, including those that could threaten crops and livestock.
A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.
Prosecutors said Keith Berman falsely claimed he had invented a blood test that could detect Covid-19 in 15 seconds. His lawyer said he had put “genuine effort” into developing such a test.
Los científicos que estudian la evolución continua del virus y las respuestas inmunitarias del organismo esperan evitar un rebrote y comprender mejor la covid prolongada.
Scientists studying the virus’s continuing evolution, and the body’s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid.
A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.
In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients.
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.
The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel.
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
High-security labs, like this one at Penn State, are at the center of a debate over research that alters viruses to make them more dangerous.
Schools run by the Defense Department educate 66,000 children of civilian employees and service members.
Let’s bring back an era of accountability.
Despite billions in federal aid, students are not making up ground in reading and math: “We are actually seeing evidence of backsliding.”
The results are the federal government’s last major data release on the academic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Strict pandemic lockdowns may have allowed animals to range more widely and spend time closer to roads, a new study suggests.
Pandemic aid was supposed to help students recover from learning loss, but results have been mixed.
Tokophobia, as it’s called, is not often studied in the United States. But a new survey finds that it may be very common, particularly among Black women and in disadvantaged communities.
Lab safety doesn’t need to torpedo scientific progress.
The latest test results continue a nearly decade-long decline. Try a sample quiz to test your knowledge.
After analyzing genetic data swabbed from a Wuhan market in early 2020, a virologist said it was unclear if animals for sale there had been infected.
Leaders on the continent have vowed that if there is another pandemic, they won’t be shut out of the vaccine market.
Scientists from the Chinese C.D.C. confirmed that DNA from raccoon dogs and other animals susceptible to the coronavirus was found at the market in early 2020.
In a much-anticipated study, experts described a swab that was positive for the coronavirus and contained loads of genetic material from raccoon dogs.
Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them.
Some medications, like Ritalin and Vicodin, would require an in-person doctor’s visit under the new rules, a reaction to the pandemic-era rise of telemedicine.
