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See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week
The crescent moon will seemingly jump over the planet Jupiter between the nights of April 29 and April 30.
Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?
Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.
European forest-monitoring satellite heads toward orbit on 4th-ever launch of Vega-C rocket
The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite headed toward orbit early Tuesday morning (April 29) on the fourth-ever launch of the Vega-C rocket.
40-year-old spy satellite photos are helping find forgotten land mines in Cambodia
Long-forgotten mine fields in Cambodia are being revealed in decades-old, recently declassified images from U.S. military satellites.
Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky
Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.
Brand-new Falcon 9 rocket sends 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on SpaceX's 2nd launch of the day
SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day.
Amazon launches 27 satellites to begin building huge 'Project Kuiper' internet constellation (video)
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).
Pine Barrens ablaze as seen from orbit | Space photo of the day for April 28, 2025
Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 1st of 2 planned Starlink launches in 2 days, lands booster at sea (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
'I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good': NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)
Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.
