EditorialCrews take off decals on Virgin Orbit/Cosmic Girl 747, the satellite launch company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, Wednesday at Long Beach airport CA/USA. June 14, 2023. The California-based firm, which had already filed for Chapter 11 ba
EditorialA popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard can it be to tweak the supreme algorithm? (Jon Han/The New York Times)
EditorialA composite image of the Jupiter system taken by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam using two filters, F212N (orange) and F335M (cyan). (NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso and Judy Schmidt via The New York Times)
EditorialThe actor Cecily Strong, left,, with director Leigh Silverman on stage for “The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” at The Shed in New York, Dec. 14, 2021. (Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times)
EditorialChris Hadfield went viral as an astronaut singing David Bowie in orbit. Now he has written a Cold War thriller packed with cosmic action. (Mark Sowa/NASA via The New York Times)