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How to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve with NORAD's 2025 tracker
NORAD celebrates its 70th year of tracking Santa Claus as he flies around the world delivering joy this Christmas Eve.
Rocket Lab launches final mission of 2025, sends Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit (video)
Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit.
H3 rocket suffers upper stage anomaly, fails to correctly deploy navigation satellite
An H3 rocket from Mitsubishi Heavy Technologies and JAXA lifts off with the QZS-5 navigation satellite. The rocket suffered a second stage anomaly that prevented a successful deployment at the correct altitude. Image: JAXA
A flight of Japan’s H3 rocket ended in failure on Dec. 22 after the upper stage experienced an anomaly.
Tory Bruno steps down as President, CEO of ULA
Tory Bruno stands between a pair of Vulcan booster at United Launch Alliance’s rocket factory in Decatur, Alabama, on Nov. 4, 2025. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now
United Launch Alliance announced its president and chief executive officer, Tory Bruno, resigned from the company, effective Monday, Dec. 22.
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.
Explore Orion's Massive New Stars with Binoculars
Waves of recent star formation have made Orion winter's most scintillating constellation. You can see how it all came to be.
Northern lights may be visible in 10 states tonight
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field.
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.
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
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.
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."
Euclid’s galaxy garland
Image: Euclid image of galaxy NGC 646
Five New Planets and the Battle for Their Atmospheres
One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have to know where to look, and the exoplanet has to actually have an atmosphere. While scientists know the location of about 6000 exoplanets currently, they also believe that many of them don’t have atmospheres and that, of the ones that do, many aren’t really Earth-sized. And of those, many are around stars that are too bright for our current crop of telescopes to see their atmosphere. All those restrictions mean, ultimately, even with 6000 potential candidates, the number of Earth-sized ones that we could find an atmosphere for is relatively small. So a new paper available on arXiv from Jonathan Barrientos of Cal Tech and his co-authors that describes five new exoplanets around M-dwarf stars - two of which may have an atmosphere - is big news for astrobiologists and exoplanet hunters alike.
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.
Japanese H3 rocket fails during launch of navigation satellite
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.
Best space board games to play this Christmas
Enjoy some out-of-this-world fun this Christmas with my selection of the best space board games available right now.
ESA's JUICE Mission Reveals More Activity from 3I/ATLAS
In November 2025, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS emerged from behind the Sun and began making its way towards the outer Solar System. This was a momentous occasion, as the comet was experiencing increased activity following its closest approach to the Sun and was once again visible to our telescopes and robotic space missions. One such mission is the European Space Agency's (ESA) JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), which captured the above image of 3I/ATLAS using its Navigation Camera (NavCam).
Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate
A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.
