The Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Vandenberg Space Force Base Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from California on Feb. 19, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. PST.

The missile was "equipped with a single telemetered joint test assembly re-entry vehicle," according to the US Space Force.

Credit: U.S. Space Force video by Staff Sgt. Joshua LeRoi

An Electron rocket launched the first "Gen-3" satellite for the geospatial intelligence company Blacksky from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Feb. 18, 2025 at 6:17 p.m. EST (2317 GMT; 12:17 p.m. on Feb. 19 local New Zealand time). Full Story: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/rocket-lab-launch-blacksky-first-gen-3-satellite

Credit: Rocket Lab

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Feb. 18, 2025 at 6:15 p.m. EST (2315 GMT).

The rocket's first stage will came back to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff, landing on a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of The Bahamas for the first time.

Credit: SpaceX

Firefly Aeropspace's Blue Ghost lander flew about 74 miles (120 km) above the surface of the moon during a lunar orbit maneuver on Feb. 18, 2025.

Credit: Firefly Aerspace
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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is blasting 'constant stream' of flares, according to a new study by the Northwestern University that used James Webb Space Telescope observations. Full Story: https://www.space.com/jwst-milky-way-black-hole-blowing-bubbles

Footage courtesy: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University
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See NASA's Perserverance rover land in multiple views from Mars. The rover touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021.

Credit: NASA

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 Starlink satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Feb. 15, 2025 at 1:14 a.m. EST (0614 GMT).

"It was the 26th liftoff for the rocket's first stage, breaking a reuse mark that SpaceX set just last month," according to Space.com

Credit: SpaceX

For Valentine's Day see some of Space.com's favorite views from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope set to new music from @LoganSpaleta https://found.ee/loganspaletajustakiss

Credit:
Interacting galaxies Arp 273 | Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Spiral galaxy NGC 2566 | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Galaxies IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | HST/JWST
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Star cluster NGC 602 | JWST
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Open cluster Westerlund 1 | JWST
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Galaxy I Zwicky 18 | JWST
ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Hirschauer, M. Meixner et al., N. Bartmann

Protostar L1527
ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Serpens Nebula
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Green (Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex | JWST
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

See some of Space.com's favorite views from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope set to new music from @LoganSpaleta https://found.ee/loganspaletajustakiss

Credit:
Interacting galaxies Arp 273 | Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Spiral galaxy NGC 2566 | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Galaxies IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | HST/JWST
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Star cluster NGC 602 | JWST
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Open cluster Westerlund 1 | JWST
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Galaxy I Zwicky 18 | JWST
ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Hirschauer, M. Meixner et al., N. Bartmann

Protostar L1527
ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Serpens Nebula
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Green (Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex | JWST
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Chandra X-ray Telescope team's pick for Valentine's Day is 30 Doradus, aka the Tarantula Nebula.

Credit; NASA/CXC/A. Hobart