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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, to begin the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force. Credit: United Launch Alliance

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Friday on a six-hour climb to geosynchronous orbit, deploying a classified payload and a U.S. Space Force satellite to test an improved infrared heat-sensitive sensor design that could help detect and track enemy hypersonic missiles.

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

Virgin Orbit just aced its fourth mission in a row, launching seven small satellites in the company's first-ever night flight.

NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on June 30. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now

NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System moon rocket will be hauled from its launch pad back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center overnight Friday into early Saturday morning for final repairs, testing and closeouts, moving closer to liftoff later this summer after completing a fueling demonstration last month.

A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft are on their way to orbit to help the U.S. military get better at tracking fast-moving threats.

Capable of both destruction and creation, space volcanoes are common on planets and moons throughout the solar system and beyond.

China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.

Marvel Comics releases its long-awaited "Predator" series from Ed Brisson and Kev Walker.

NASA's little CAPSTONE cubesat is making good progress on its long journey to the moon.

China has launched another in its series of Gaofen Earth observation satellites as it continues building out its space infrastructure.

A new study suggests that high-impact exercise could help astronauts limit bone loss while in space.

A hot, dry start to summer has spurred a record number of wildfires in southern Alaska, and weather satellites are tracking the development of the blazes from space.

NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars.

An amateur astronomer found a fossilized surprise in the well-studied sky near the bright Andromeda Galaxy.

Week in images: 27 June - 1 July 2022

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.