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This illustration provided by NASA in December 2025 depicts the aftermath of a collision between two massive space rocks orbiting the star Fomalhaut. (NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford, Space Telescope Science Institute via AP)

Hubble Space Telescope spies dusty debris from two cosmic collisions

2:25 PM on Thursday, December 18

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery

FILE - People look up to the sky from an observatory near the village of Avren, Bulgaria, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov, File)

Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas

8:13 AM on Thursday, December 18

The Ursid meteor shower is bringing fiery streaks to nighttime and early morning skies

This photo provided by the Anguilla National Trust shows a Lesser Antillean iguana from Dominica undergoing a health screening in Dominica in 2021, before being translocated to Prickly Pear East, an islet off mainland Anguilla, as part of a species reintroduction program. (Anguilla National Trust photo/Farah Mukhida via AP)

Uninhabited Caribbean islet blossoms into love nest for critically endangered iguana

12:07 AM on Thursday, December 18

Silence used to prevail in the forest of a private Caribbean islet until environmentalists transformed it into a love nest for the critically endangered Lesser Antillean iguana

FILE - Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, right, walks past as police officers block an entrance to the Louvre after thieves carried out a daylight raid on French crown jewels, in Paris, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

A mysterious fedora, a thieving cat and other stories that made us smile in 2025

12:04 AM on Thursday, December 18

The past year wasn't all doom and gloom; there was plenty to smile about, too

FILE - People celebrate the Winter Solstice sunrise celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Upton, file)

The shortest day of the year is descending on the Northern Hemisphere. Here's what to know

12:01 AM on Thursday, December 18

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter

Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's pick to be NASA Administrator, speaks during a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in do-over after Musk feud

4:30 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The Senate has confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to serve as NASA administrator

FILE - Denise Lodge, left, covers her face with a printout of the indictment against her as she walks from the federal courthouse, June 14, 2023, in Concord, N.H., following her arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts. (Steven Porter/The Boston Globe via AP, File)

Harvard morgue manager who sold body parts like 'baubles' gets 8-year prison term

3:32 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts

A crowd of people holding candles gather outside the home of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Mass., Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and the investigation into his shooting

12:28 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Authorities are searching for a suspect in the killing of Nuno Loureiro, a prominent MIT physics professor

FILE - This image made by the Cassini spacecraft and provided by NASA on March 12, 2006, shows two of Saturn's moons, the small Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn's A and F rings stretching across the frame. (NASA via AP)

Saturn's moon Titan may not have a buried ocean as long suspected, new study suggests

11:00 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all

This undated photo provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December 2025 shows Nuno Loureiro. (Jake Belcher/MIT via AP)

Shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro has police searching for a suspect

9:56 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Police have intensified their search for a suspect in the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno F

FILE - John Prevost, brother of new Pope Leo XIV, holds a portrait of the three Prevost brothers from 1958, Pope Leo, 3, left, John, 4, and Louis, 7, at his home, May 8, 2025, in New Lenox, Ill. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy, File)

Good news: Behind the scenes of some of the most uplifting stories of 2025

8:19 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Journalists with The Associated Press have captured some of 2025's most uplifting stories amid global challenges

Ahmad Collins, a city government worker and former Penn State linebacker, prepares for his nightly dialysis at his home in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

To find living donors for kidney transplants, a pilot program turns to social networks

12:05 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Fernando Moreno has been waiting for a kidney transplant for about two years

In this photograph taken in September 2025 and released Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, by Stelvio National Park, Late Triassic prosauropod footprints are seen on the slopes of the Fraeel Valley in northern Italy. (Elio Della Ferrera/Stelvio National Park via AP)

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

1:01 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian national park

Michael del Rosario, environmental education coordinator at Fundemar, shows a piece of ceramic with corals growing on it in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic on Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Francesco Spotorno)

As reefs vanish, assisted coral fertilization offers hope in the Dominican Republic

9:01 AM on Tuesday, December 16

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists

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