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They won't be home for Christmas, but astronauts in space are finding their own way to make the season bright.

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

China overcomes human spaceflight emergency and makes leaps with lunar hardware tests

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.

From compelling stories to non-fiction, books can spark ideas that help us navigate the climate crisis. As part of The Conversation’s ongoing Climate Storytelling strand, we asked climate research and creative writing experts to review some of the best new and upcoming titles to look out for in 2026. We’d…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS completes its near-miss with Earth, revealing bizarre chemistry and highlighting the growing threat to our asteroid detection systems.

New data on interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS reveals a kilometre-wide nucleus and absolute radio silence, challenging existing theories on cometary physics.

The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind and waves.

Discover the mystery of 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet with wobbling 'anti-tail' jets. Harvard's Avi Loeb warns of its toxic legacy as it nears Jupiter.