NPR's staff traveled a lot in 2025. From a Mardi Gras workshop to a festival celebrating the mythical Mothman, here are some places and events we thought you might want to check out, too.

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From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. 3I/ATLAS is the third-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. The comet is not a ...

Space tourism bellwether Virgin Galactic announced a complex series of financial moves on Dec. 9 designed to prop up the suborbital services upstart’s balance sheet until it can get its Delta-class ...

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The comet is the 3rd interstellar object ever detected and got its name from the ATLAS telescope that discovered it. NASA officials have rejected conspiracy theories that the object could be an alien ...

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter. When you purchase through links on ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Scientists confirmed the object originated outside our solar system due to its high speed and trajectory. The comet poses no danger and will pass about 170 million miles from Earth. While not visible ...

LOS ANGELES — A Southern California immigrant rights group has asked Target stores to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it says is offensive to immigrants. The costume, posted on ...