Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look skyward, where a new lunar contest mirrors humanity’s struggle to live within plane ...

Mars ended NASA’s InSight mission on its own terms, not with a dramatic crash or a catastrophic malfunction, but with a slow, ...

Man is returning to the moon - and with him old rivalries and new ambitions. Europe wants to have its say; Germany wants to ...

From Earth's orbit, an observer witnessed the birth and course of a colossus of the seas. Back to July 29, 2025. A major ...

Vladimir Putin jokes that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a 'secret weapon' as the mysterious object sweeps past Earth.

Trump and Congress both support returning to the moon. A vibrant commercial space sector and a coalition of international ...

But 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary rock – it’s a comet from beyond the solar system which greeted the Earth on December 19. It’s ...

Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

As the new year approaches, many people have decided to embark on new adventures. Perhaps you’ve decided that this is finally the year you’ll learn Spanish or figure out how to start sewing your own ...