Dennis Overbye on Retiring from The New York Times: A Solstice of the Soul NYT | Top Stories Dennis Overbye 20 December 2024 at 18:02 For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire. © Jim Wilson/The New York TimesDennis Overbye, The New York Times’s “cosmic affairs correspondent,” during a visit to The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., in 2011.