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Space calendar 2024: 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 2024 with our space calendar.

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movie poster showing a woman wearing a blue flight suit and space helmet, with the word "sally" written in white text

'SALLY' at Sundance: NatGeo film to reveal 'hidden love' of 1st US woman in space

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A documentary about the life and love of America's first woman in space will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "SALLY," from National Geographic, reveals the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride.

Human Spaceflight
a yellowish moon dotted with craters, with an inset image showing a gas plume escaping its surface

What causes volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io? Scientists aren't so sure anymore

By Keith Cooper published

New measurements from NASA's Juno probe have seemingly put to bed the possibility of a magma ocean beneath the surface of Io.

Juno
a giant swirling galaxy like an eye in space with a yellow center and red and white spiral arms.

'Grand' spiral galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope photo

By Samantha Mathewson published

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Space Telescope
Three large jupiters are below eight saturns, flanked by three uranus and three neptune.

Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)

By Josh Dinner published

The space agency has learned a lot over 10 years observing the weather of our solar system's outer planets.

Hubble Space Telescope
a large silver cone-shaped spacecraft in a white cleanroom

SpaceX launch of NASA's new 3D-sky-mapping satellite set for February 2025

By Julian Dossett published

NASA is aiming for February 2025 to launch its SPHEREx observatory, which will produce 3D maps of the entire visible sky.

Launches & Spacecraft
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After accident on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years

By Brett Tingley published

Ingenuity may never fly above the surface of Mars again, but the downed helicopter is otherwise healthy and could serve as a weather station for decades, JPL says.

Mars Rovers
A bright streak tears across the night sky as a burning fireball and tail. A palm tree stands from the bottom center.

Seismometers track atmospheric shock waves from incoming space debris

By Farah Aziz Annesha published

Seismometers Track Atmospheric Shock Waves from Incoming Space Debris

Space Exploration
a white-and-blue fighter jet soars through the sky

NASA will fly F-15s through supersonic shock waves behind its experimental X-59 jet

By Brett Tingley published

NASA has developed special probes that will fly aboard F-15B jets trailing closely behind its X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet in order to measure the shock waves it produces.

Quesst
a black-and-white rocket launches at night above a bright plume of fire

Rocket Lab's secretive launch last month was a hypersonic test for the US military (photos)

By Mike Wall published

Rocket Lab's pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed.

Launches & Spacecraft
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