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A large metal spacecraft is sits on a platform in a warehouse with lettering behind it

Meet Qingzhou, China's next-gen cargo craft for its Tiangong space station (video)

By Andrew Jones published

Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.

Human Spaceflight
An orange, yellow, and blue heat image showing rows of orange heated architecture in the middle of an urbanized area.

Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center

By Tereza Pultarova published

Bitcoin-mining mega data center seen leaking heat into the environment in an image captured from orbit by a thermometer satellite

Satellites
A Japanese H3 rocket launches the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite from Tanegashima Space Center on Dec. 21, 2025. The rocket suffered a problem with its second stage, resulting in a failure.

Japanese H3 rocket fails during launch of navigation satellite (video)

By Mike Wall published

A Japanese H3 rocket suffered an anomaly during the launch of a navigation satellite on Sunday night (Dec. 21), resulting in the loss of the spacecraft.

Launches & Spacecraft
SpaceX's Starship megarocket launches on the vehicle's 10th flight test, on Aug. 26, 2025.

Starship success, a private moon landing and more: The top 10 spaceflight stories of 2025

By Mike Wall published

Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new rocket and the first-ever fully successful private moon landing.

Space Exploration
a small rocket carrying six people in a capsule lifts off, set against the rising sun

Blue Origin launches 1st wheelchair user to space and back (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

Blue Origin launched wheelchair user Michi Benthaus and her NS-37 five crewmates aboard a New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.

Private Spaceflight
A yellow orb is surrounded by tons of yellow dots representing space debris below 0.1 mm.

These 2 companies are teaming up to offer insurance for space debris strikes on satellites

By Andrew Jones published

Odin Space and Arkisys are teaming up to provide customers with pioneering insurance for spacecraft specifically to cover space debris collision events.

Satellites
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 image taken from one of Perseverance's cameras with the rover in the bottom right of the image and a long windy trail of tire tracks in the reddish brownish dirt of Mars behind it

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover could break the record for miles driven on another planet

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

"There is a lot to keep us busy."

Mars Rovers
Graphic illustration with 'space calendar' in large blue neon letters and 2025 below it in smaller white letters. Below the title are four neon images depicting a meteor or comet, a telescope, a rocket launch and an astronaut's helmet. There is a starry background to the entire image.

Space calendar 2025: Rocket launches, skywatching events, missions & more!

By Space.com last updated

Reference Keep up with all the rocket launches, astronomical events and mission milestones for 2025 with our space calendar.

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Innospace team members together with officials from the Brazilian Air Force and the Brazilian Space Agency pose with the company’s first commercial launch vehicle Hanbit-Nano at the Alcântara Space Center in Brazil.

Watch South Korean startup Innospace attempt its 1st-ever orbital launch today

By Andrew Jones published

The South Korean startup Innospace will attempt its first orbital launch from Brazil's Alcântara Space Center on Monday (Dec. 22), and you can watch the action live.

Launches & Spacecraft
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