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November 14, 2025

It was quite a week in spaceflight and astronomy, and it’s not over yet. The northern lights dipped very far south. A new rocket landed its booster for reuse for the first time. NASA began an unusual voyage to the red planet. There’s a meteor shower this weekend.

Kenneth Chang, who reports on spaceflight and planetary science for The New York Times, is responding to reader comments about his articles on NASA’s ESCAPADE mission and the New Glenn rocket that launched it. Join the conversations here and here.

UC Berkeley/UCLA/NASA Great Escapes Almost everything about NASA’s latest mission to Mars is unusual. →

Blue Origin, via YouTube Launch, Land, Repeat It took decades, but Jeff Bezos’ rocket company just matched a feat only SpaceX had pulled off. →

Georgi Licovski/EPA, via Shutterstock Look Up! The Leonids meteor shower peaks over the weekend. Here’s how to watch it. →

Andy Dossett/Examiner-Enterprise, via USA Today, via Reuters At This Time of Year? Did you see the Northern Lights this week? Here’s a nice recap. →

Manuel Romano/NurPhoto via Getty Images Plenty of Pleiades The “Seven Sisters” is really a cluster of more like 3,000 stars. →

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