Maps of the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
On April 8, the moon will cast a shadow across much of North America.
By Jonathan Corum
Jonathan Corum is the science graphics editor for The New York Times.
His reporting has brought him from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
He joined The Times in 2005 and has a degree in Art and East Asian Studies from Yale College.
On April 8, the moon will cast a shadow across much of North America.
By Jonathan Corum
The Supreme Court justice has built a network of former clerks who share messages, meals and a common vision — wielding influence at universities, law firms and the highest rungs of government.
By Abbie VanSickle and Steve Eder
Beijing is investing heavily in the modernization of Lop Nur, a sprawling military site where it long detonated atom bombs and thermonuclear warheads.
By William J. Broad, Chris Buckley and Jonathan Corum
On Saturday, Oct. 14, an annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse will sweep across much of the Western Hemisphere.
By Jonathan Corum
Many of the birds that spend their summers in the United States are preparing to fly south. Here’s where they’re headed — and why it matters.
By Emily Anthes
Images from India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, Vikram lander and Pragyan rover.
By Jonathan Corum
This was featured in live coverage.
By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum
Six decades of crashes, belly flops and hard landings on the lunar surface.
By Jonathan Corum
The Times reviewed 101 studies of medication abortion, spanning continents and decades. All concluded that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy.
By Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Jonathan Corum, Malika Khurana and Ashley Wu
Miles below the surface, harvesting metallic nodules on the ocean floor may speed the green energy revolution but threaten animals found nowhere else on the planet.
By Sabrina Imbler and Jonathan Corum
Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019.
By Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller
A picture is emerging of the toll long Covid takes inside the body and why it can be so debilitating.
By Josh Keller
This was featured in live coverage.
By Emily Anthes and Jonathan Corum
Following the course of a typical Omicron infection.
By Emily Anthes and Jonathan Corum
A new simulation shows how the virus survives inside tiny airborne particles of water — and gives clues about how the Delta variant became dominant.
By Carl Zimmer and Jonathan Corum
Pfizer and Moderna are skeptical, but we found 10 companies in Africa, Asia and South America well-positioned to produce the gold-standard mRNA shots.
By Stephanie Nolen
Behind the scenes from starter cells to a finished vaccine.
By Emma Cott, Elliot deBruyn and Jonathan Corum
This was featured in live coverage.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
See which countries have reported cases of the Omicron variant.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
This was featured in live coverage.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
What researchers have learned about the variant first discovered in Britain.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Two adenoviruses help prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
See how the leading vaccines train the immune system to fight the virus.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Using a coronavirus protein to train the immune system.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Two shots can prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Two shots can prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.
By Katherine J. Wu and Jonathan Corum
Following the course of a typical Covid-19 case.
By Katherine J. Wu and Jonathan Corum
A guide to the spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit.
By Jonathan Corum
An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.
By Carl Zimmer, Katherine J. Wu, Jonathan Corum and Matthew Kristoffersen
The Crew Dragon launched successfully on Saturday.
By Jonathan Corum
Scientists are using many techniques to develop coronavirus vaccines.
By Jonathan Corum, Knvul Sheikh and Carl Zimmer
A newly discovered comet is swinging around the sun.
By Jonathan Corum
The virus has mutated. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting deadlier.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Surviving disaster, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.
By Jonathan Corum
The virus injects a tiny but remarkably complex strand of RNA into infected cells.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
The intricate journey of the virus that causes Covid-19.
By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer
Glimpsing the surface of a shape-shifting star.
By Jonathan Corum
Looking for the answers to ax² + bx + c = 0? A mathematician has rediscovered a technique that the ancient Babylonians used.
By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum
Kryptos has been in a courtyard at C.I.A. headquarters for almost 30 years. Three of its four passages have been decoded. Will one more clue unlock the last?
By John Schwartz and Jonathan Corum
Thousands of people have been sickened by lung illnesses linked to vaping, most by using THC products.
By Jonathan Corum
It could be a long wait.
By Jonathan Corum
A majority of the House support the articles of impeachment against the president.
By Sarah Almukhtar, Larry Buchanan, Jonathan Corum, Denise Lu, Alicia Parlapiano, Joe Ward and Karen Yourish
The second known interstellar object is now passing through our solar system.
By Jonathan Corum
The planet slid across the face of the sun on Monday.
By Jonathan Corum
Thousands of people have been sickened by lung illnesses linked to vaping, most by using THC products.
By Jonathan Corum
60 years of moon crashes.
By Jonathan Corum
The Times’s Graphics, Science and Immersive Storytelling teams shine a new light on the iconic photography from the first moonwalk.
By Graham Roberts and Jonathan Corum
Apollo 11’s return to Earth, in the astronauts’ words and photos.
By Jonathan Corum, Mika Gröndahl, Evan Grothjan, Jon Huang, Lingdong Huang, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali and Graham Roberts
From the Earth to the moon, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.
By Jonathan Corum, Mika Gröndahl, Evan Grothjan, Jon Huang, Lingdong Huang, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali and Graham Roberts
See Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic photographs and words from the moonwalk.
By Jonathan Corum, Mika Gröndahl, Evan Grothjan, Jon Huang, Lingdong Huang, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali and Graham Roberts
The Beresheet lander crashed into the moon.
By Jonathan Corum
A planet-sized network of radio telescopes has assembled the first image of a black hole.
By Jonathan Corum
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft is studying asteroid Bennu and will attempt to return a sample to Earth.
By Jonathan Corum
Fifteen years and 28 miles on the red planet.
By Jonathan Corum
China’s Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon.
By Jonathan Corum
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the most distant object ever visited.
By Jonathan Corum
Beneath the fields of Switzerland and France lies the largest machine ever built. Tour the Large Hadron Collider in virtual reality.
By Dennis Overbye, Evan Grothjan and Jonathan Corum
The largest machine ever built is shutting down for two years of upgrades. Take an immersive tour of the collider with AR and 360° photos.
By Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum, Evan Grothjan, Jon Huang, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali, Graham Roberts and Marcelle Hopkins
On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronauts orbiting the moon saw Earth rising for the first time.
By Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum and Jason Drakeford
On Monday afternoon, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will try to land on Mars.
By Jonathan Corum
Astronomers are probing the edge of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
By Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum and Jason Drakeford
This is the case that revealed to law enforcement that it’s possible to figure out just about anyone’s identify through their cousins’ DNA.
By Jonathan Corum and Heather Murphy
From Aug. 2018: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is flying through the punishing heat of the sun’s outer atmosphere.
By Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum and Jason Drakeford
Four virtual-reality films that take you on, above and below the Antarctic ice.
By Graham Roberts, Jonathan Corum, Evan Grothjan and Yuliya Parshina-Kottas