EditorialMercury, the planet closest to the Sun. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington via The New York Times)
EditorialA simulation suggesting the effects of a 1 megaton nuclear blast on an asteroid approximately 300 feet in size. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory via The New York Times)
EditorialHal Levison, second from right, a planetary scientist and the principal investigator on the Lucy mission, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., Dec. 31, 2018. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 Jointly Awarded to Professors Manabe and Hasselmann, and Parisi, Princeton, New Jersey, United States - 05 Oct 2021
EditorialA photo provided by NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona shows the asteroid Bennu, viewed from the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft from about 186 miles in March, which scientists say has a small chance of colliding with Earth in the 2100s. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona shows the asteroid Bennu, viewed from the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft from about 186 miles in March, which scientists say has a small chance of colliding with Earth in the 2100s. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona shows the asteroid Bennu, viewed from the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft from about 186 miles in March, which scientists say has a small chance of colliding with Earth in the 2100s. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
EditorialExtinction Rebellion protest at the Shell sponsorship of the 'Our Future Planet' Exhibition at the Science Museum., Science Museum, London, UK - 31 Jul 2021
EditorialExtinction Rebellion protest at the Shell sponsorship of the 'Our Future Planet' Exhibition at the Science Museum., Science Museum, London, UK - 02 Feb 2021
EditorialKristina Berning, center, and her sisters Celine, left, and Michelle visit with Ellie, a cow that Kristina brought from her father’s dairy farm to Hof Butenland, an ex-dairy farm that’s become a farm animal retirement home and symbol of veganism and coexistence of people and animals, in Butjadingen, Germany, June 12, 2021. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)
EditorialA museum guest photographs Johannes Vermeer’s “Woman Holding a Balance” in the National Gallery of Art in Washington on June 18, 2021. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by NASA/GSFC shows an artist’s depiction of the NASA DAVINCI+ probe descending in stages to Venus’s surface. (NASA/GSFC via The New York Times)
EditorialApollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau.
EditorialThe Terrifying Comet Or Modern Planetary System, William Dent, active 17841793, 1792, Aquatint with colored impression, Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (24.8 x 34.9cm).
EditorialNetherlands Roman period, terracotta, mask, planetary vase, fragment, earthenware, terracotta, 1.7 x 6.2 cm, roman 200-270, the Netherlands, South Holland, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Voorburg, Arentsburg.
EditorialKitaharasa, Mandala of the Sun God Surya Surrounded by Eight Planetary Deities, Nepal, early Malla period, Kitaharasa, dated, likely 1379, Nepal, Distemper on cloth, Image: 32 5/8 ? 21 1/2 in. (82.9 ? 54.6 cm), Paintings.
EditorialSara Seager, a planetary expert and physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Nov. 14, 2011. (Gretchen Ertl/The New York Times)
EditorialPlate 2: Jupiter; statue of the nude god seated on an eagle, holding a double trident; from 'Statues of Roman Gods' after Jacques Jonghelinck.
EditorialPlate 4: Apollo; statue of the nude god standing on a socle, wearing a crown and holding a scepter in his right hand and an orb in his left; from 'Statues of Roman Gods' after Jacques Jonghelinck.
EditorialPlate 7: Diana; statue of the nude goddess standing on a socle, wearing a crescent moon in her hair and holding a bow and arrow; from 'Statues of Roman Gods' after Jacques Jonghelinck.
EditorialSarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University, has worked on NASA’s Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. (Morgan Hornsby/The New York Times)
EditorialApollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau.
EditorialAn image provided by JPL/NASA taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2015 of Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. (JPL/NASA via The New York Times)