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Our favorite Space.com stories of 2025
We asked our staff to choose their favorite Space.com stories of 2025. Here's what we got.
The top astronomical discoveries of 2025
Here are eight of the most spectacular astronomical discoveries of 2025.
Lego U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D review
Boldly going where no Lego set has gone before, the first-ever Star Trek Lego set you can buy and it...
Space.com headlines crossword quiz for week of Dec...
Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlin...
Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for natio...
When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to...
The best sci-fi movies of 2025. ranked
Spike your eggnog and relax with our list of the finest flicks of the year about invasive AI, soarin...
The 12 biggest space stories of 2025 — according t...
It's the 12 days of Spacemas, fa la la la la la la la la (sorry).
Dark matter may be made of pieces of giant, exotic...
Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative...
Most normal matter in the universe isn't found in ...
While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty.
The best streaming device out there: Which one com...
Which is the best streaming device out there? We've pitted four of the best models on the market aga...
Mathematicians spent 2025 exploring the edge of ma...
Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of ...
The best sci-fi and space games of 2025, ranked
As another year comes to an end, we sit down and collect our thoughts on the best sci-fi and space v...
Longtime United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno res...
After nearly 12 years leading the United Launch Alliance (ULA), its chief Tory Bruno is stepping dow...
Space Force Guardians show off shiny new duds | Sp...
It marks the first time newly commissioned Space Force Guardians have graduated Officer Training Sch...
2025's best photos of the natural world, from volc...
A village buried by a landslide, the world’s largest tidal bore and the aftermath of ferocious storm...
See the moon shine with Saturn in the southern sky...
Don't miss the moon cozy up to Saturn on Dec. 26.
Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on M...
Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they...
The most exciting exoplanet discoveries of 2025
New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how...
What should I look at with my new telescope?
From the moon and Jupiter to famous nebulae and galaxies, here’s your beginner-friendly guide to wha...
'Spectacular' progress has been made towards usefu...
At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing indus...
A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living thin...
The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in bio...
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic...
Overall, the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the Earth as a whole.
Ancient eyes on the skies: Early astronomers quiz
Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curio...
6 incredible new dinosaurs we discovered in 2025
Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relat...
Google's proposed data center in orbit will face i...
As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: sp...
Roman around the Christmas tree | Space photo of t...
All the NASA engineers and scientists need is a star on top of the telescope in the cleanroom.
Astronauts beam home Christmas wishes from Interna...
They won't be home for Christmas, but astronauts in space are finding their own way to make the seas...
The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope blew...
A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could...
Christmas 2025 skywatching guide: What you can see...
The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving.
What old, dying stars teach us about axions as a c...
The axion could be a contender to explain the mystery of dark matter.
UCS Millennium Falcon versus UCS Death Star: Which...
The two largest and most expensive Lego Star Wars sets available go head-to-head: The UCS Millennium...
60,000 feet above Earth, NASA is hunting for the m...
The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals.
Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rew...
A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this yea...
Record launches, reusable rockets and a rescue: Ch...
China overcomes human spaceflight emergency and makes leaps with lunar hardware tests
'Dracula's Chivito' looks stunning in this tasty C...
Using the Hubble space telescope, astronomers have imaged "'Dracula’s Chivito" the largest site of p...
NASA's Apollo 8 moonshot saved 1968. Could Artemis...
On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the...
NASA satellite gazes into Medusa Pool | Space phot...
The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly...
More than 100 moons were discovered in our own sol...
Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, ...
The biggest black hole breakthroughs of 2025
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from th...
Russia patents space station designed to generate ...
According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity fo...
10 most expensive Lego Star Wars sets available ri...
In a galaxy not so far away, Lego sets can be VERY expensive: Here are the most expensive Lego Star ...
Before trips to Mars, we need better protection fr...
Outside Earth's protection, space travellers will be routinely exposed.
Santa's sleigh or the International Space Station?...
Early risers across North America and Europe may spot a bright, silent light gliding across the Chri...
Northern lights may delight this Christmas — here'...
Fast solar wind and a possible glancing blow from a coronal mass ejection could spark auroras over C...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals weird wobbling...
3I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this inters...
Alpine communities face uncertain future after 202...
Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this ye...
How to extend and improve your life by getting mor...
Growing evidence reveals that creativity is one of the best-kept secrets for boosting your health. F...
Watch Indian rocket launch record-breaking BlueBir...
An Indian LVM3 rocket is scheduled to launch the massive BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite for AST Spa...
We didn't find answers in 2025, but UFO researcher...
"Science doesn't always go as planned. In any case, there's a lot of work to be done."
