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Blue Origin launches 1st wheelchair user to space and back (video)
Blue Origin launched wheelchair user Michi Benthaus and her NS-37 five crewmates aboard a New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 190 — Holiday Special 2025
On Episode 190 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look back at the past year in space — its ups, its downs, its all-arounds.
On this day in space! Dec. 20, 1904: Mount Wilson Observatory founded
On Dec. 20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded.
'Enemy Mine' at 40: An empathetic space adventure that still resonates strongly today
Hated rivals Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. find brotherhood on a desolate planet in Wolfgang Petersen's cult sci-fi classic.
How the 'delayed choice quantum eraser' experiment got us to rethink reality
Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.
The best last-minute holiday gifts for any die hard space superfan
Show the space enthusiast in your life that you love them to the moon and back with the best last-minute holiday gifts available.
Looking for a skywatching Christmas gift? We have hunted down the best last-minute deals on telescopes, binoculars and more
Deals Are you behind on your holiday shopping or holding out for some final pre-Christmas bargains? From telescopes to monoculars, we've rounded up the best last-minute savings on optical equipment.
Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, scientists say. 'It's definitely not just an exploding star.'
"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."
