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2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year, including the first-ever fully

Tear your eyes away from fireworks this New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31) to witness a magnificent natural light show, complete with twinkling constellations and star clusters, the steady light of

From astronauts circling the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year for space exploration. Governments and private companies alike

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The summer of 2025 brought unprecedented flash flooding across the

The January full moon soared through the winter sky on Jan. 3, putting on an awe-inspiring display as it flooded the night with reflected sunlight to kick off a new

Moon boots and Mars boots: anyway you look at it there are a lot of NASA shoes still to drop. Among the agency’s missions in perpetual déjà vu status is

NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman were expected to perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 8), but it was called off Wednesday afternoon (Jan.

In Finnish folklore, the northern lights are created when a mythical fox races across the Arctic tundra, its tail sweeping snow into the sky and setting it ablaze. Those glowing

The U.S. Space Force is turning to some unlikely sources of inspiration for naming its spacecraft and space weaponry. At the 3rd Annual Spacepower Conference, held in Orlando, Florida from

Europe’s towering Ariane 6 rocket is gaining momentum in the heavy-lift launch market. The first pair of Galileo navigation satellites to launch on an Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe’s