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Meet Qingzhou, China's next-gen cargo craft for its Tiangong space station (video)

Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.

Space

Northern lights may be visible in 10 states Dec. 23-24

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field.

Space

Did you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?

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10 space zombie movies, books, and games to prepare you for the night of the intergalactic dead

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

Space

Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center

Bitcoin-mining mega data center seen leaking heat into the environment in an image captured from orbit by a thermometer satellite

Space

Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed

The Guardian - UK

NASA launches science balloon in Antarctica | Space photo of the day for Dec. 22, 2025

The first scientific balloon flight happened on Dec. 16, 2025.

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NASA's SPHEREx telescope completes its 1st cosmic map of the entire sky and it's stunning!

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to eventually create a home for us in it."

Space

Why being a child prodigy could actually stop the chances of becoming an ‘Einstein’

A new study has found that those who excel at a young age may not become the high performers of the future

The Independent UK

10 times the sky amazed us in 2025

A bevy of comets, a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse and impressive northern lights were just three of the skywatching highlights in 2025. Here's how they unfolded.

Space

Japanese H3 rocket fails during launch of navigation satellite (video)

A Japanese H3 rocket suffered an anomaly during the launch of a navigation satellite on Sunday night (Dec. 21), resulting in the loss of the spacecraft.

Space

Can you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?

The year ahead in numbers

The Guardian - UK

Starwatch: After the Geminids meteor shower, it is the turn of the Ursids

Patient watchers should wrap up warm to witness one of nature’s subtler events on night of 22 to 23 December

The Guardian - UK

Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate

A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.

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Starship success, a private moon landing and more: The top 10 spaceflight stories of 2025

Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new rocket and the first-ever fully successful private moon landing.

The Independent UK

Wild mother polar bear adopts cub in rare video: ‘It gives you a lot of hope’

More than two-third of polar bears are predicted to be extinct by the year 2050

Space

Ursid meteor shower 2025 peaks tonight: Here's what to expect from the yuletide light show

Ursid shooting stars may be visible throughout the night on Dec. 21-22.

Space

Who are the Sea Devils? The classic 'Doctor Who' monsters in 'The War Between the Land and the Sea'

As the veteran 'Who' antagonists get ready for their close-up, we look back at 50 years of underwater history.

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Winter solstice 2025 marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere today

Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky.

Space

James Cameron's sci-fi movies ranked, worst to best

As Avatar: Fire and Ash makes its cinematic debut, here's James Cameron's best directorial sci-fi movies to date – and the list is earth-shatteringly impressive.

Space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 190 — Holiday Special 2025

On Episode 190 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look back at the past year in space — its ups, its downs, its all-arounds.

Space

'Enemy Mine' at 40: An empathetic space adventure that still resonates strongly today

Hated rivals Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. find brotherhood on a desolate planet in Wolfgang Petersen's cult sci-fi classic.

Space

How the 'delayed choice quantum eraser' experiment got us to rethink reality

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

Space

Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, scientists say. 'It's definitely not just an exploding star.'

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."

Space

Astronomers may have spotted the 1st known 'superkilonova' double star explosion

"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-opening."

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