Jonathan Corum

On April 8, the moon will cast a shadow across much of North America.

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.

Beijing is investing heavily in the modernization of Lop Nur, a sprawling military site where it long detonated atom bombs and thermonuclear warheads.

On Saturday, Oct. 14, an annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse will sweep across much of the Western Hemisphere.

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.

Images from India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, Vikram lander and Pragyan rover.

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Six decades of crashes, belly flops and hard landings on the lunar surface.

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.

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.

Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019.

A picture is emerging of the toll long Covid takes inside the body and why it can be so debilitating.

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Following the course of a typical Omicron infection.

A new simulation shows how the virus survives inside tiny airborne particles of water — and gives clues about how the Delta variant became dominant.

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.

Behind the scenes from starter cells to a finished vaccine.

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See which countries have reported cases of the Omicron variant.

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What researchers have learned about the variant first discovered in Britain.

Two adenoviruses help prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

See how the leading vaccines train the immune system to fight the virus.

Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.

Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.

Using a coronavirus protein to train the immune system.

Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.

An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

Two shots can prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

Two shots can prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.

Following the course of a typical Covid-19 case.

A guide to the spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit.

An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.

The Crew Dragon launched successfully on Saturday.

Scientists are using many techniques to develop coronavirus vaccines.

A newly discovered comet is swinging around the sun.

The virus has mutated. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting deadlier.

Surviving disaster, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.

The virus injects a tiny but remarkably complex strand of RNA into infected cells.

The intricate journey of the virus that causes Covid-19.

Glimpsing the surface of a shape-shifting star.

Looking for the answers to ax² + bx + c = 0? A mathematician has rediscovered a technique that the ancient Babylonians used.

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?

Thousands of people have been sickened by lung illnesses linked to vaping, most by using THC products.

It could be a long wait.

A majority of the House support the articles of impeachment against the president.

The second known interstellar object is now passing through our solar system.

The planet slid across the face of the sun on Monday.

Thousands of people have been sickened by lung illnesses linked to vaping, most by using THC products.

60 years of moon crashes.

The Times’s Graphics, Science and Immersive Storytelling teams shine a new light on the iconic photography from the first moonwalk.

Apollo 11’s return to Earth, in the astronauts’ words and photos.

From the Earth to the moon, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.

See Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic photographs and words from the moonwalk.

The Beresheet lander crashed into the moon.

A planet-sized network of radio telescopes has assembled the first image of a black hole.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft is studying asteroid Bennu and will attempt to return a sample to Earth.

Fifteen years and 28 miles on the red planet.

China’s Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the most distant object ever visited.

Beneath the fields of Switzerland and France lies the largest machine ever built. Tour the Large Hadron Collider in virtual reality.

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.

On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronauts orbiting the moon saw Earth rising for the first time.

On Monday afternoon, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will try to land on Mars.

Astronomers are probing the edge of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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.

From Aug. 2018: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is flying through the punishing heat of the sun’s outer atmosphere.

Four virtual-reality films that take you on, above and below the Antarctic ice.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is exploring Ryugu, an asteroid thought to contain rubble from the early solar system.

How far do you have to move our slider to hear one name or the other?

NASA’s InSight spacecraft has arrived on Mars to listen for marsquakes and probe the geological heart of the planet.

The InSight spacecraft arrived at Mars in 2018 to listen for marsquakes and study the planet’s structure.

NASA’s TESS spacecraft is searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station burned up over the South Pacific on Sunday, April 1.

SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the second time on Thursday.

Astronomers have discovered a passing rock from another star — the first interstellar asteroid.

For the first time, astronomers have seen and heard a pair of neutron stars collide in a crucible of cosmic alchemy.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere in September 2017, after 20 years in space.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will plunge into Saturn on September 15, incinerating itself after 20 years in space.

Long after they have stopped communicating with Earth, the twin Voyager spacecraft will forever drift among the stars.

On Aug. 21, the moon will paint a swath of North America in darkness.

虽然和其它星球相比，太阳还算安静。但它仍是一颗多变的星球，一个形成惊人风暴并向宇宙发射高能量粒子和射线的热核聚变火炉。

Two weeks on ice in McMurdo Station, the largest outpost in Antarctica.

The United States has had the most ambitious research program in Antarctica for 50 years. But our reporters journeyed there and found the infrastructure is aging and deteriorating, and the new price tags are high.

The McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica may be Earth’s closest equivalent to a Martian landscape.

The story behind the story of the first virtual-reality stereo footage ever shot on the continent.

Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe.

Scientists are sprinting to understand what is happening in West Antarctica as the planet warms around it.