Opinion

The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon

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 ...

Trump chooses to go back to the moon — and to do it this decade

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

The moon and sun figure big in the new year's lineup of cosmic wonders

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 ...

3I/ATLAS Shock: Putin Claims Interstellar Comet Is 'Russia's Secret Weapon' in Wild Joke

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

3I/ATLAS was just a comet – but could we have defended ourselves if it was aliens?

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 ...