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The European Space Agency's Biomass satellite is stacked atop its Arianespace Vega-C rocket ahead of a planned April 29, 2025 launch.

Watch Vega-C rocket launch European forest-monitoring satellite to orbit on April 29

By Mike Wall published

The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Launches & Spacecraft
smoke emanating from a large wildfire is seen spreading for miles as imaged by a satellite in Earth orbit

Pine Barrens ablaze as seen from orbit | Space photo of the day for April 28, 2025

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.

Earth
a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

Launches & Spacecraft
a rocket launches aganist a blue sky

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 1st of 2 planned Starlink launches in 2 days, lands booster at sea (video)

By Josh Dinner published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Launches & Spacecraft
an astronaut in a white space suit smiles and gives a thumbs up as he is carried across a field in a chair immediately after landing on earth

'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)

By Mike Wall published

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.

International Space Station
The Shenzhou 19 astronauts hand control of China's Tiangong space station over to their Shenzhou 20 counterparts during a ceremony on April 27, 2025.

China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts take control of Tiangong space station (video)

By Andrew Jones published

China's outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.

Missions
The sun shines behind a white and brown Atlas V rocket carrying Amazon's Kuiper 1 satellites for an April 29, 2025 launch.

Watch Atlas V rocket launch 1st big batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites today afer delay

By Mike Wall last updated

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites today (April 28), and you can watch it live.

Launches & Spacecraft
Screenshot from The Outer Worlds 2

The Outer Worlds 2: Release window, trailers, story details & everything else we know

By Fran Ruiz published

Space isn't safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here's everything we know about Obsidian's sci-fi sequel.

Space Games & Toys
A purple haze above the NYC skyline. The moon looks quite small compared to the haze.

Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: 'This cloud is literally glowing in the dark'

By Keith Cooper published

A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.

The Universe
a black hole in a swirling blue and white sky

NYT bestseller Daniel Wilson's next book is 'Hole in the Sky', an alien first contact story on a Cherokee reservation, and it's already been picked up by Netflix (interview)

By Jeff Spry published

'This really digs into two of my favorite things: where I'm from in Oklahoma, and robots and science fiction'

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