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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
a girl in a blue jumpsuit in the wastelands

How to watch 'Fallout' Season 2 online and from anywhere

By Jeff Spry published

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!

Space Movies & Shows
an illustration shows PSR J2322-2650b, a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar

James Webb Space Telescope discovers a lemon-shaped exoplanet unlike anything seen before: 'What the heck is this?'

By Robert Lea published

"This was an absolute surprise. It's extremely different from what we expected."

Exoplanets
Several stargazing gifts floating in front of a planet.

Best space stocking stuffers: Budget friendly Christmas gifts for stargazers and astrophotographers

By Chris McMullen published

Deals Stuck for a small gift for a skywatcher? From compact binoculars to power banks and SD cards, we've rounded up the ideal sub-$100 stocking stuffers.

Deals
A bright star twinkles in a deep blue night sky

Could the Star of Bethlehem have actually been a comet?

By Keith Cooper published

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

Comets
An artist's illustration of NASA's Explorer 16 satellite, which launched on Dec. 16, 1962 to study the micrometeoroid environment in space.

On this day in space! Dec. 16, 1962: NASA launches 1st meteoroids mission Explorer 16

By Hanneke Weitering, Elizabeth Howell last updated

On Dec. 16, 1962, NASA launched the Explorer 16 spacecraft to study micrometeoroids near Earth.

Launches & Spacecraft

'Fallout' Season 2 review: A stark warning against letting tech billionaires decide humanity's fate

By Fran Ruiz published

Amazon and Bethesda return to the Wasteland with a second Fallout season that's all about New Vegas and not letting businessmen and fanatics run the world.

Space Movies & Shows
An image of Earth from space, showing Ethiopia and the Middle East covered with brown and gray streaks of ash

Satellite watches volcano spew ash over Middle East | Space photo of the day for Dec. 16, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India.

Satellites
An illustration of the JWST against a "filament" of dark matter strteching many light-years through space

James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn't realize

By Robert Lea published

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

Dark Universe
graphic with night sky in large font and silhouettes of people below looking up at the night sky.

Night sky tonight: See the Winter Triangle rise in the east after dark

By Jamie Carter last updated

Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.

Stargazing
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