EditorialA detail of an image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, shows the complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialA detail of an image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, shows the complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated composite image provided by NASA shows the space agency’s Perseverance rover with its robotic arm extended over an outcrop at Skinner Ridge in the Jezero crater on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialAn artist’s concept of various vehicles associated with a return of samples from Mars to Earth, including, clockwise from far left: a helicopter, a Mars-Earth return orbiter, a Mars ascent vehicle, a retrieval lander and the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialImages provided by NASA show Uranus, left, and Neptune during flybys of NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Jónsson via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the Mars helicopter Ingenuity showing the backshell of Perseverance’s landing capsule, its supersonic parachute and the related debris field on April 19, 2022. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the Mars helicopter Ingenuity showing the backshell of Perseverance’s landing capsule, its supersonic parachute and the related debris field on April 19, 2022. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated image provided by NASA shows an artist’s conception of Kepler-62f, a planet in the “habitable zone” 1,000 light-years from Earth. (NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows part of the asteroid 2022 EB5’s predicted orbit around the sun before it entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded above the east coast of Greenland on March 11. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS shows images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during a dust storm that obscured the location of the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter (white circle). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated photo provided by NASA/JPL shows Jupiter's stormy northern hemisphere as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Juno took the four images used to produce this color-enhanced view on May 29, 2019. (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL via the New York Times)
EditorialThe Perseverance rover’s first cored sample of Mars rock is visible inside a titanium sample collection tube. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialThe first Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, which NASA hopes will be sent back to Earth for study in the next decade. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU via The New York Times)
Editoriala view of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere, captured by the Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the planet on May 29, 2019. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image from video provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the fourth flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on April 30, 2021, captured by a camera on the Perseverance rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image from video provide by NASA/JPL-Caltech, during its third flight on Sunday, April 25, 2021, when NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity recorded a series of images of its silhouette. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialNASA’s Perseverance rover photographed the experimental helicopter known as Ingenuity during the vehicle’s third flight on Mars on Sunday, April 25, 2021. It is the small black dot near the center of the lower hill. (Nasa/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Asu that was recorded by the Ingenuity helicopter of it’s own shadow over the surface of Mars as it conducts its first short flight on Monday, April 19, 2021. (NASA JPL-Caltech/Asu/ via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image from NASA/JPL-Caltech, the parachute that helped land the Perseverance spacecraft, seen from an upward-looking camera during landing on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image from NASA/JPL-Caltech, the parachute that helped land the Perseverance spacecraft, seen from an upward-looking camera during landing on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin/NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an outline of the expected landing site on Mars’s surface of Perseverance. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an undated photo from NASA, a Centaur second-stage rocket at NASA's Lewis Research Center (now the John H. Glenn Research Center) in Ohio in the 1960s. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows an infrared image mosaic of the Elysium Mons volcano taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft in 2001. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University via The New York Times)