EditorialAn image provided by NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington shows the planet Mercury as photographed by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft in 2008. (NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington via The New York Times)
EditorialImages of the Comet C/2014 UN271, now confirmed as the the largest comet ever discovered, with a core more than 80 miles across. (NASA, ESA, STScI via The New York Times)
EditorialImages of the Comet C/2014 UN271, now confirmed as the the largest comet ever discovered, with a core more than 80 miles across. (NASA, ESA, STScI via The New York Times)
EditorialA large battery unit, which stores power from the solar system for use at night and on cloudy days, at the new two-story headquarters of the Oregon State Treasury in Salem, March 29, 2022. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)
EditorialRalph Baca, a retired warehouse worker for the federal government, at his home with solar panels in Barstow, Calif., Jan. 16, 2022. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialThe solar system and Planetarium, Illustration of the solar system from the 18th century, Fig. 2, p. 2, 1742, Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: Atlas novus coelestis: in quo mundus spectabilis, et in eodem tam errantium quam inerrantium stellarum phoenomena n...
EditorialAn artificial view of the transit of Venus, June 3, 1769 at London, in a large celestial landscape. Institutions of astronomical calculations; containing a survey of the solar system ... With a description of two new pieces of mechanism, etc. London : ...
EditorialSpain, Andalusia, Seville province, Santiponce. Roman city of Italica. Founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Scipio. House of the Planetarium. Mosaic which represents the seven stars of the solar system known at that time by the Romans. Each planet is...
EditorialA farm prepared for cultivating opium poppies, irrigated by solar-powered pumps, in Musa Qala, in Afghanistan?s Helmand province, Nov. 9, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialTheresa Garcia near her home and solar panels, which she cannot use until a nearby transformer is upgraded, in Portola Valley, Calif., Oct. 14, 2021. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo from NASA shows the asteroid-exploring probe Lucy being encapsulated in preparation for launch, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., Sept. 30, 2021. (Ben Smegelsky/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo provided by NASA shows, a long exposure photograph of United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard as it launches from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via The New York Times) (Bill Ingalls/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo from NASA shows the asteroid-exploring probe Lucy being encapsulated in preparation for launch, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., Sept. 30, 2021. (Ben Smegelsky/NASA via The New York Times)