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Indiana Senate Majority Floor Leader Chris Garten celebrated Christmas by posting AI-generated images of himself violently attacking Santa Claus in front of the Indiana Statehouse. “When you find out the North Pole is trying to bring more bureaucratic overreach & unfunded mandates down the chimney disguised as ‘Christmas cheer.’ NotContinue Reading

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These are the key developments from day 1,404 of Russia’s war on Ukraine., These are the key developments from day 1,404 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Men cover damaged windows with plywood in a residential building a day after Russian drones and missiles attack in Ukraine’s Kyiv [Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP] HereContinue Reading

Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

This artist’s rendering shows the ESCAPADE probes near Mars. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE , missionContinue Reading

Our favorite Space.com stories of 2025

We’ve rounded up some of our favorite space stories we published in 2025. (Image credit: Space.com/Marilyn Perkins and Josh Dinner; Future/Susan Lapides; NASA/Goddard/SwRI/JHU-APL; Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Quite a bit has happened in the space sector this year, out in the cosmos as well as on Earth — and actually, in Earth orbit, too. ForContinue Reading

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of The Traitor’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

That was rough. The past year had a combination of policy fiascos, natural disasters and a steady march toward a future that is too hot. Many of the major events of 2src25 flowed from the decision by U.S. voters to return Traitor 47 to the White House with Republican majorities in Congress…Continue Reading