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two women in dark clothing float beside each other inside a windowed module of a space station

The ups and downs of life in space | On the ISS this week June 23 - 27, 2025

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The Axiom Mission-4 (Ax-4) crew flying aboard SpaceX's Dragon "Grace" docked to the International Space Station beginning a two-week stay on the orbiting laboratory with the Expedition 73 crew.

International Space Station
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 gold satellite with dual triple-paneled solar arrays floats in space above earth. a blue and green mission patch is in the top right.

Japan targeting June 28 for launch of GOSAT-GW on 50th and final liftoff of the H-2A rocket

By Josh Dinner published

The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket is set to launch the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturday (June 28).

Launches & Spacecraft
illustration of debris in orbit around Earth

Satellites keep breaking up in space. Insurance won't cover them.

By Tom Brown published

Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads.

Satellites
a white and black rocket lifts off into the night sky.

SpaceX sends Starlink satellites into space on 1st launch of a Saturday doubleheader

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on the first of two launches scheduled for Saturday, June 28, 2025.

Launches & Spacecraft
an illustration of two constellations in the night sky; one looks roughly like a bear, the other like a 'square' with a tail

Look for the 'Other Dipper' this summer: How to find Ursa Minor, the Little Bear with a little help from the North Star

By Joe Rao published

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Stargazing
Lost Planet 2 (2010)

15 years before Helldivers 2, Lost Planet 2 taught us that the only good bug was a dead bug

By Fran Ruiz published

One of the most overlooked sequels in Capcom's history, Lost Planet 2 walked so games like Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 could run.

Space Games
A Rocket Lab Electron booster carrying 13 NASA satellites, including 10 cubesats for agency's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites program, lifts off from the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island on Dec. 16, 2018 on the ElaNa-19 mission.

Watch Rocket Lab launch Symphony of the Stars mission overnight tonight after delay

By Mike Wall last updated

Rocket Lab is planning to launch a satellite for a confidential customer early Saturday morning (June 28), and you can watch live.

Launches & Spacecraft
A series of dots over a dark blue background

See the crescent moon dance with Mars and the bright star Regulus this weekend

By Anthony Wood published

For some lucky viewers, the moon will pass directly in front of Mars.

Stargazing
a rocket engine from the left spews blinding fire to the right

Nozzle blows off rocket booster during test for NASA's Artemis program (video)

By Josh Dinner published

A solid rocket engine for NASA's Space Launch System rocket experienced an anomaly during a static fire test at the booster's Northrop Grumman facilities June 26.

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