Marina Koren
Before joining in 2015, Marina was a politics and breaking-news reporter at National Journal. She has written for Smithsonian magazine, Psychology Today, Popular Mechanics, and other publications. At The Atlantic, Marina writes about science, with a focus on space exploration.
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Christopher Pike / Bloomberg / Getty Playing God With the Atmosphere
Interfering with Earth’s climate systems is becoming more possible—and less predictable—than ever.
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Gagan Nayar / AFP / Getty Totality Is Worth It
A total solar eclipse is a rare opportunity to experience unadulterated communion with the cosmos.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. Solar Eclipses Are Always With Us
“In celestial spaces shadows cannot fail to fall, and the solid earth must now and then intercept them,” Mabel Loomis Todd wrote in 1897.
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Kyle Green / Idaho Statesman / Getty Don’t Miss This Eclipse
The United States won’t see totality like this again until 2045.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Most Powerful Rocket in History Had a Good Morning
SpaceX’s latest Starship mission flew farther than before—and tested technology that could elevate humankind’s spacefaring status.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone
As far as humanity is concerned, the transformation of our seas is “effectively permanent.”
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The Atlantic. Sources: SCIEPRO; Peter Dazeley / Getty. Apollo’s Sequel Will Be a Gold Rush
The moon hasn’t seen this many missions since the Apollo era. This time, humanity might be there to stay.
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Go Nakamura / Reuters Another ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ for Elon Musk
SpaceX’s Starship blew up again, and NASA’s moon clock is ticking.
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Virgin Galactic You Won’t Hear Much About the Next Chapter of Space Travel
Space tourism is getting less transparent, and more like traveling by private jet.
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Photo-illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic It’s the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine
So why doesn’t it feel that way?
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NASA / ESA / CSA You’ve Never Seen a Star Like This
A new image from the Webb telescope shows an infant star not as a diamond hanging in the sky, but as a velvety, dark orb surrounded by jets of radiant dust.
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NOAA / AP This Hurricane Season Is Unprecedented
A very strange climate drove Hurricane Idalia. Scientists can’t predict whether more storms like it are coming.
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Brook Rushton / FOX The Most Believable Reality TV Is Set on Mars
Stars on Mars—a show about celebrities solving made-up problems in space—gets one thing about astronaut missions very, very right.
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Black Holes Swallow Everything, Even the Truth
The most mysterious objects in the universe are fundamentally unknowable.
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Eliseo Fernandez / Reuters We’re Gambling With the Only Good Oceans in the Universe
Earth’s precious water made life possible. Now it’s simmering.
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Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call / Getty UFOs Are Officially Mainstream
Even Congress is getting in on the hype.
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ESA / HPF / DLR Earth Is a Potato
Gravitationally speaking
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OceanGate / Handout / Anadolu Agency / Getty How Could This Have Happened?
Five people died in a submersible that was only loosely regulated and may not have been inspected for safety.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Titanic Sub and the Draw of Extreme Tourism
Diving to the bottom of the ocean is risky. So is flying to space. But people will keep paying to do both.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech Saturn’s Frozen Moon Just Got a Lot More Interesting
New evidence suggests that Enceladus has an ocean that could sustain life.
