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This panorama, made up of 81 individual images stitched together, was taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Nov. 20, 2021, which was the 3,303rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission.

Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

See the best photos on Space.com this week.

A view of the Gemini 7 spacecraft in orbit, as seen from Gemini 6 before the two capsules docked in 1965.

On This Day in Space! Dec. 4, 1965: Gemini 7 launches on 1st orbital rendezvous mission

By Hanneke Weitering

On Dec. 4, 1965, NASA launched the crewed Gemini 7 spacecraft on a two-week-long mission in low-Earth orbit. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space series.

A United Launch Alliance rocket carrying the STP-3 mission for the U.S. military, including a NASA laser space communications experiment, stands atop its pad at Space Launch Copmlex 41 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a Dec. 5, 2021 launch.

Atlas V rocket launching mission for US Space Force Sunday morning: Watch it live

By Amy Thompson

Liftoff is scheduled for 4:04 a.m. EDT (0904 GMT) on Sunday (Dec. 5).

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket launches the SES-15 communications satellite into orbit in May 2017 from Kourou, French Guiana.

UPDATE: Arianespace will launch two European navigation satellites on a Soyuz rocket Saturday night. Watch it live.

By Elizabeth Howell

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket is scheduled to lift off Thursday night to grow the Galileo constellation.

This SpaceX photo shows the first test-fire of six Raptor engines on the company's Starship SN20 rocket prototype on Nov. 12, 2021 at the Starbase facility in near Boca Chica Village in South Texas. A Starship Super Heavy booster stands at right.

SpaceX starts building Starship launch pad in Florida

By Mike Wall

SpaceX has started building a pad for its Starship Mars rocket at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).

The Soyuz launch site at Europe's spaceport near Kourou, in French Guiana.

Rocket launch tonight! Arianespace Soyuz to launch 2 Galileo satellites at 7:23 pm ET

By Space.com Staff

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket will launch two new Galileo navigation satellites into orbit Friday night, Dec. 3, and you can watch it live, courtesy of Arianespace.

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.

Space station dodges space debris from decades-old Pegasus rocket

By Meghan Bartels

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.

"Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex," a new attraction at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, is slated to open in March 2022.

NASA visitor complex to open immersive 'Gateway' to deep space in 2022

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related "Gateway" at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Blue Origin has teamed up with Sierra Space, Boeing and others to build Orbital Reef, a private space station, to begin flying by the end of the 2020s.

NASA awards $415 million for private space stations amid ISS transition questions

By Elizabeth Howell

Three companies snagged a total of $415 million to develop their private space station designs.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 48 Starlink satellites and two BlackSky Earth observation satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on Dec. 2, 2021.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 50 satellites to orbit for Starlink megaconstellation, BlackSky

By Amy Thompson

There were 48 Starlink satellites on board, plus two Earth observation satellites for BlackSky Global.

A used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink internet satellites launches through a fog layer from a pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 13, 2021.

SpaceX to launch its next Starlink fleet and 2 BlackSky satellites tonight. Watch it live!

By Amy Thompson

SpaceX will launch its next stack of Starlink satellites from the East Coast tonight (Dec. 2) as part of a rideshare mission, and you can watch the action live online.

NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, riding at the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, works to replace a faulty S-band antenna outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.

NASA astronauts on spacewalk replace faulty antenna outside space station

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Two NASA astronauts on a spacewalk replaced a faulty antenna outside the International Space Station Thursday (Dec. 2), restoring one of the ways the orbiting outpost communicates with Earth.

Rocket Lab's next generation Neutron rocket will have a fully reusable first stage with an integrated fairing that opens like a flower.

Rocket Lab's next-gen Neutron rocket will be reusable (and have a 'Hungry Hippo' nose cone)

By Tereza Pultarova

RocketLab's next-generation reusable Neutron rocket will operate like an aircraft.

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Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth? An expert explains NASA's DART mission

By Gail Iles

A NASA spacecraft the size of a golf cart has been directed to smash into an asteroid, with the intention of knocking it slightly off course.

NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn completing a spacewalk during STS-127 in 2009.

NASA astronauts are taking a spacewalk outside space station today. Here's how to watch live.

By Chelsea Gohd

Two NASA astronauts will step out into space on a mission to replace a faulty antenna system tomorrow (Dec. 2).

An image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Reiner Gamma swirl.

NASA picks Intuitive Machines for mission to visit a moon swirl

By Elizabeth Howell

The mission will investigate a mysterious lunar swirl that could be rich in mining resources.

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite caught this view of Africa and the entire sunlit side of Earth on July 9, 2015.

1st Space Council meeting under VP Harris highlights climate change, competitiveness and responsible space behavior

By Mike Wall

Using space assets to monitor and help mitigate climate change, investing in STEM education and helping to establish and uphold rules for space behavior will be priorities going forward.

Rocket Lab will announce a "major development update" to its new Neutron rocket on Dec. 2, 2021.

Rocket Lab will unveil a 'major development update' on its next-gen Neutron rocket today. Here's how to watch live.

By Tariq Malik

Rocket Lab will lift the veil on its next-generation rocket on Thursday (Dec. 2) and you can watch it live online.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Nov. 5, 2021.

National Space Council meeting today: Watch live here at 1:30 pm ET

By Mike Wall

The first meeting of the National Space Council under Vice President Kamala Harris takes place Wednesday (Dec. 1) at 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT). Watch it live here.

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