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A Vega C rocket launched the MicroCarb carbon dioxide mapper and four Earth-observation satellites tonight (July 25) from South America.

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the predawn hours of Saturday with its latest batch of Starlink satellites. The flight comes about a day and a half after the internet constellation experienced a global outage for more than two hours.

The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, potentially revealing a way of finding more of them in the future.

The four members of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission on the Expedition 73 crew began packing for home, while also calling down to Earth to share their ongoing work aboard the ISS.

Unlike other superhero superstars, the Fanastic Four have traditionally struggled with the transition to the big screen.

Crew-11 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, if all goes to plan.

Blue Origin has announced the payload for the first-ever flight of its Blue Ring spacecraft —Scout Space's Owl space domain awareness sensor.

A new image from the Gemini Observatory might show a stellar companion to Betelgeuse, but the discovery is tentative.

Senegal has officially joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 56th nation — and the fourth African country — to commit to a shared vision for peaceful and transparent space exploration.

Week in images: 21-25 July 2025

NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.

The spacecraft streaks through the darkness of space to reenter Earth's atmosphere.

It's no coincidence that a Klingon with a grudge follows the Enterprise's away mission to Kenfori.

NASA employees and allies protested sweeping science cuts they say are gutting the agency from within. As Congress pushes back on NASA leadership, workers warn the damage is already underway — and the future of U.S. space exploration is at risk.

It's 1961, and four intrepid cosmic explorers journey to space under the leadership of Reed Richards, where they encounter cosmic rays that change them forever. But what are cosmic rays?

The newly waxing Moon passes Mars low in the west, then Spica and Antares while growing more robust. At dawn, Jupiter heads toward Venus.

Image: The turquoise waters southeast of the Kuwaiti island of Failaka are captured in this image acquired by the Φsat-2 mission.