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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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illustration of the kennedy center for performing arts as seen from above and with fireworks going off on the Potomac River

'Earth to Space' art festival set to launch at Kennedy Center this week

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A nearly month-long mission is ready to lift off, with preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center, but the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Space Exploration
a large orange fuselage stands up the middle, with smaller white fueslages attached on both sides.

NASA completes SLS core stage stacking for Artemis 2 moon mission (photos)

By Josh Dinner published

NASA's next moon rocket is coming together at the agency's Kennedy Space Center, as the SLS core stage gets its solid rocket boosters.

Artemis
a city is seen at night from space by only its glowing lights on buildings and structures

'City of Lights' as seen at night from space: Space photo of the day

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Paris, France is seen lit up in this photo taken aboard the International Space Staton.

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Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronaut and Space Force Col. Nick Hague, as well as fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida on March 18, 2025.

US Space Force celebrates return of 1st Guardian to launch to space (photos)

By Julian Dossett published

U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague is back on Earth after living on the International Space Station for the last five-plus months.

International Space Station
An incredible image of a mystery blue spiral that appeared in the skies over Europe on Monday (March 24). This image was captured by Daniel Puchalski from Poland.

Mysterious blue spiral spotted over European skies. What was it? (photos)

By Robert Lea published

A strange blue spiral lit up the sky over Europe on Monday night (March 24), with residents of the UK and other countries speculating on its true nature on social media.

Launches & Spacecraft
a rectangular satellite in orbit above earth

Space pirates already have their sights set on the 'high seas' of Earth orbit. Can we stop them?

By Leonard David published

Experts are already looking into the risks of piracy in space and solutions to this potentially devastating economic and legal problem.

Space Exploration
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The young star is off to the lower right corner of the Webb image.Intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a face-on spiral galaxy in the distant background. Image released on March 24, 2025.

'Cosmic tornado' swirls in breathtaking new James Webb Space Telescope image

By Victoria Corless published

A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope
Artist's illustration of an Artemis astronaut stepping onto the moon.

NASA says removal of 'first woman, person of color' language from Artemis websites 'does not indicate' moon mission crew change

By Brett Tingley published

NASA websites no longer state that the Artemis 3 mission will aim to land the first person of color and the first woman on the moon, but the agency says this does not reflect a change in crew.

Artemis
Two male astronauts inside SpaceX Dragon capsules with spacesuits on, visors up

SpaceX Crew-9 and Crew-10: Live updates

By Mike Wall, Josh Dinner last updated

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Crew-9 and Crew-10 missions to the International Space Station for NASA.

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