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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
An illustration of a spherical asteroid with a small space probe sitting on top of it with a solar panel.

Japan's Hayabusa2 is heading to the smallest asteroid ever visited by a space mission

By Keith Cooper published

Hayabusa2's new target, asteroid 1998 KY26, is just 36 feet (11 meters) across, which will make landing on it challenging.

Asteroids
A picture of a thin crescent moon hanging against a black sky with the bright point of light representing Venus close to its lower left.

See the crescent moon take flight with Venus in the predawn sky on Sept. 19

By Anthony Wood published

See a sickle moon with Venus and the bright star Regulus early on Sept. 19.

Stargazing
A mountain surrounded by a halo filled with stars is sitting above the word "Paramount +" in cursive writing, all on a blue planet background with the space.com logo in the top left corner.

Hurry, this Paramount Plus deal ends today and saves a huge 50% — at just $29.99 for an entire year, it's an 8 cents a day streaming bargain

By Paul Brett published

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Deals
a spacecraft is held by a robot arm over Earth

Northrop Grumman's biggest-ever cargo spacecraft arrives at ISS on its debut mission

By Mike Wall published

Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship reached the International Space Station this morning (Sept. 18), after a delay, delivering about 11,000 pounds of supplies to the orbiting lab.

International Space Station

What time is the partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21?

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Earth will see a deep partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21 — here's who can watch and when.

Solar Eclipses
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Space.com Staff last updated

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

International Space Station
a white rocket topped by a gumdrop-shape capsule launches

Blue Origin launches 35th New Shepard flight after long delay

By Mike Wall last updated

Blue Origin launched its 35th New Shepard suborbital mission this morning (Sept. 18) after a nearly four-week delay, flying more than 40 scientific payloads above the Kármán Line.

Launches & Spacecraft
This picture of Earth and the moon in a single frame — the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft — was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft at a distance of 7.25 million miles (11.7 million km) from Earth. Because Earth is many times brighter than the moon, the moon was artificially brightened by a factor of three relative to the Earth by computer enhancement so that both bodies would show clearly in the prints.

On this day in space! Sept. 18, 1977: Voyager 1 takes 1st photo of Earth-moon system

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took its first photo of Earth and the moon.

Launches & Spacecraft
A helicopter with dual propellors floats over the dry, weedy Colorado landscape with a large cloudy sky above.

NASA's Artemis astronauts practice moon landings in Colorado | Space photo of the day for Sept. 18, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

NASA is collaborating with the Colorado Army National Guard at its training center in Gypsum to help Artemis astronauts prepare for moon landings.

Space Exploration
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