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The winners of the Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 have been announced, celebrating the very best in nature photography from around the world.

NASA released close-up images of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, only the third known visitor from another star, after it passed near Mars. The closest the comet will come to Earth is 269 million kilometres in mid-December. Then it will hightail it back into interstellar space, never to return.

Emirates, British Airways, United and Qatar will soon (or already do) offer free internet at altitude

A NASA ISS livestream sparks debate after bright lights appear before a brief signal loss, with experts saying the sighting was likely routine Earth lighting.

Natalie Paine, a French horn player in New Zealand’s navy, has been stationed in Antarctica on a military posting since October

Object is just the third known visitor from another solar system – and has prompted speculation about whether it might be an alien spacecraft

The rock is made out of elements also found in Earth’s core, the space agency says

NASA is unveiling close-up pictures of the interstellar comet that's making a quick one-and-done tour of our solar system

Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”.