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Best Star Trek gifts 2026: Beam up these Trekkie gift ideas

By Alexander Cox last updated

Star Trek Go boldly where you haven't gone before with our Star Trek gift guide, offering the best swag on the market to impress the Trekkie in your life.

Star Trek
a close-up of a payload fairing atop a rocket as it lifs off from its ocean-side launch pad

Starlink satellites lift off on SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

Launches & Spacecraft
An illustration shows a black hole blowing out a powerful cosmic wind

NASA X-ray instrument finds black holes act like 'cosmic seesaws' shaping the universe

By Robert Lea published

"We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow."

Black Holes
A computer modeled image of a red crater filled with blue-gray water.

How Mars' ancient lakes grew shields of ice to stay warm as the Red Planet froze

By Keith Cooper published

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

Mars
An image of blue and gold and white stars in deep space, with a boxout in the top right corner zooming in on a cluster of golden stars

Unusual 'ingredients' helped stars form in a galaxy near the Milky Way

By Elizabeth Howell published

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising questions about how the early universe evolved.

Galaxies

ISS astronaut medical evacuation latest news: Crew-11 astronauts to undock from station

By Tariq Malik, Mike Wall, Josh Dinner published

NASA is returning four astronauts to Earth early from the International Space Station due to a medical concern with one of the Crew-11 astronauts. Here's the latest news.

International Space Station
An artist's impression of the descent and landing sequence of ESA's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan. The Jan. 14, 2005 landing was the culmination of a 22-year process of planning, organizing and cooperation between ESA and NASA.

On this day in space: Jan. 14, 2005: Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons!

Space Exploration
A series of snow-covered mountain peaks jut out against a white landscape in an image seen from space

Satellite sees snowy Greenland peaks from space | Space photo of the day for Jan. 14, 2026

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

Greenland's mountains greatly affect local climate patterns.

Earth
a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

Launches & Spacecraft
The James Webb Space Telescope deep field image showing some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.

The universe should be packed with tiny galaxies — so where are they?

By Paul Sutter published

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our universe grew up.

Galaxies
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