EditorialAn undated photo provided by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile shows the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope dome, where a Dark Energy Camera detects asteroids that orbit between Earth and the sun. (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga 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)
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)
EditorialComet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and and their associate David Levy in 1993. (NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialCHARLIE BOLDEN ATTENDS DELTA IV LAUNCH OF NASA'S ORION SPACECRAFT ON FIRST EXPLORATION FLIGHT TEST, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States - 03 Dec 2014
EditorialThe Origin of the Asteroids, Formation of asteroids from a planet, no. LXXIX, after p. 90, 1842, Charles F. Blunt: The beauty of the heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe. One hundred and four coloured scenes illust...