In 2025, space exploration saw major progress with the Europa Clipper making a Mars flyby, China's Tianwen-2 mission launching to an asteroid, Australia developing its Moon Roo rover, and private companies like Intuitive Machines landing on the Moon, while NASA pushed forward with Artemis and tracked evolving dark energy, all while hundreds of orbital launches occurred and new discoveries like a giant spinning galaxy structure emerged, continuing the "Golden Age" of space.
With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II test flight early next year, which is the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, as well as built upon its momentum toward a human return to the lunar surface in preparation to send the ...
You can possibly look forward to: NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions launching off SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to be placed in Earth orbit. The Blue Moon Pathfinder mission launching off Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to land on the Moon.
In the early morning hours of April 21, 2025, SpaceX launched an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft with its 32nd delivery of supplies for the International Space Station. After the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage completed its part in the ascent, it separated from the booster's second stage to begin its return to Earth.
The first commercial space stations will start orbiting Earth in 2026. For nearly three decades, the International Space Station has been the only destination in low Earth orbit, but that will change this year. Could it be the start of a thriving economy in space? The space station industry is starting to take off.
(AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago.
In 1 sextillion years (10²¹ years), the universe will be a vastly different, dark place: the era of star formation will have ended, all stars will have burned out into white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes, planets will be cold and lifeless, and even protons might begin to decay, leading towards the "Big Freeze" or heat death, with only black holes slowly evaporating via Hawking radiation over unimaginable timescales. All familiar structures, including galaxies, will have long dissolved as the universe expands, leaving behind a cold, dark, and nearly empty expanse.
21st April 2025 at 9:09 PM is one of the most powerful moments of the year to manifest your dreams. That night, 3 powerful planets — Moon, Venus & Jupiter — will form a rare, lucky combination. This brings magic in love, money, and happiness.
A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors sparkle across the night sky. The evening of October 6, look up and be amazed as the full moon is bigger and brighter because - it's a supermoon!
On February 28, 2025, a rare planetary parade will occur, with all seven solar system planets aligned on one side of the Sun. This unique event, visible once again only in 2040, offers skywatchers an extraordinary opportunity.
The year 2025 promises to bring significant improvements compared to the challenges of the past five years. Wars in various regions are expected to end, fostering peace and stability. The global economy will likely experience robust growth, with the gold and textile industries reaching unprecedented heights.
September 7, 2025, was a significant day marked by a Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon) visible across Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe, coinciding with Father's Day in Australia, and national observances like National Beer Lover's Day and National Grandparents Day in the US, plus political events like Australian local elections and Romanian government votes.
On August 12, 2025, the night sky will deliver not one, but two jaw-dropping spectacles for stargazers. First, the Perseid meteor shower will blaze across the heavens, sending up to 100 meteors per hour streaking through the darkness.
The Argument: The G-Zero lack of international leadership, the report forecast, would create vacuums that allow for greater geopolitical conflict, disruption, instability, while emboldening rogue-state and non-state actors to create new risks in outer space, under the sea, and in international airspace.
THE working class of the country is all set to go on a massive countrywide general strike on July 9, 2025. Standing shoulder to shoulder with the working class will be the peasantry – both peasants and agricultural workers, who will be flooding the streets across the country in solidarity with the workers.
Once every 176 years, the giant planets on the outer reaches of the solar system all gather on one side of the sun, and such a configuration was due to occur in the late 1970s.
3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and previously as A11pl3Z, is an interstellar comet discovered on 1 July 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station. The comet follows an unbound, hyperbolic trajectory past the Sun, and passed by Earth at 1.8 AU, posing no threat.
The Orionid Meteor Shower will peak on October 21, 2025, offering a dazzling celestial display as Earth passes through debris from Halley's Comet. With moonless nights during its peak, skywatchers can anticipate 15-20 meteors per hour, with optimal viewing from 1 AM to dawn in the United States.
Interesting astronomical phenomena that can be observed throughout 2025 include planetary parades, total lunar eclipses, meteor showers and occultations of planets/bright stars.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (April 17, 2025) granted relief for the West Bengal government by allowing the services of “specifically” untainted candidates/teachers in the State's government and aided schools to be retained till fresh recruitment process is completed by the end of 2025.
🌙 On April 25, 2025, a rare celestial event will occur—a triple conjunction featuring Venus, Saturn, and the crescent Moon. This alignment will create a visual phenomenon resembling a smiley face in the sky, with Venus and Saturn acting as the "eyes" and the crescent Moon forming the "mouth".
National Civil Services Day in India 2025: Every year on April 21, the Government of India commemorates National Civil Services Day to acknowledge and celebrate the exceptional efforts of our civil servants engaged in public service, the backbone of the nation's administration, as they devote themselves to the cause of ...
Finally, the planet will likely be absorbed by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet's current orbit.
About 95% of the universe is "invisible" because it's composed of dark matter (around 27%) and dark energy (around 68%), which don't emit, absorb, or reflect light, unlike the normal matter (stars, planets, us) that makes up the visible 5%. Dark matter's presence is inferred through its gravitational pull on visible galaxies, while dark energy is a mysterious force causing the universe's accelerated expansion.
Humans Could Live For 1,000 Years by 2050—Ushering in the Dawn of 'Practical Immortality,' Futurists Say. Some experts warn that this radical change may remain out of reach for many, due to societal and economic challenges. Technology futurists foresee advances that will enable humans to live up to 1,000 years.