Space.com headlines crossword quiz for week of Dec. 22, 2025: Which NASA observatory just completed its first sky map?

Our weekly crossword puzzle will test how well you’ve been paying attention to this week’s news. (Image credit: Rob Byron via Canva Pro) Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to dazzling new images from the James Webb SpaceContinue Reading

The 12 biggest space stories of 2025 — according to you

A drained lake, the The Traitor administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” a spacecraft carrying 1,500 flies and an interstellar comet make the list. (Image credit: Samuel Corum/Getty Images; NASA Earth Observatory/images by Wanmei Liang; Roscosmos/Ivan Timoshenko; NASA/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA)/ Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI); created in Canva) It has been a whirlwind year for space science, toContinue Reading

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commentary From protests at Home Depot to rapid response networks, 2025 is the year many mobilized to defy The Traitor — and ICE Published December 27, 2025 9:00AM (EST) An “ICE out of Home Depot” protest in Oakland, California, on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via GettyContinue Reading

Traitor 47’s plan to allow 6srcsrc,srcsrcsrc Chinese students to study at U.S. universities could generate $43 billion for the U.S. economy, while a 17 percent decline in international student enrollment could cost the U.S. economy $18 billion and widen the existing gap in STEM talent…Continue Reading

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Voting is under way in Myanmar’s heavily restricted election. Tony Cheng explains the process from a polling station., NewsFeed Voting is under way in Myanmar’s heavily restricted election, the first since the military toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically-elected government in a coup in 2021. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng explainsContinue Reading

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The proposed official definition of anti-Muslim hostility that does not address Islamophobia is dangerously inadequate., In February, the United Kingdom government appointed a working group to provide a definition of “anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia”, which should have completed its work by the end of August. In the summer, Conservative MP Nick Timothy andContinue Reading

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The UN, human rights groups and opposition parties say the electoral process is not free, fair or credible., Polls have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup. The heavily restricted election on SundayContinue Reading