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SBIRS GEO-3 launched successfully aboard a ULA Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 20. SpaceNews.com

Orion, the Mighty Hunter, will stand upright, high in our southern sky at around 8 p.m. this week, glittering like a large piece of celestial jewelry. Within it, we also find two immense and very different stars, Rigel a...

On Jan. 14, the private spaceflight company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 commercial communications satellites in a flawless liftoff from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. See how it happened with t...

Want to see the the space station zip across the Moon or Sun? Here are step-by-step instructions how. The post How to See the Space Station Fly in Front of the Moon appeared first on Universe Today.

The world's first quantum communication satellite, callled Mozi, the 600+kg Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), nicknamed Micius after the ancient Chinese philosopher and scientist, is now officially operational ...

What would it be like to actually land on Pluto? This movie was made from more than 100 images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over six weeks of approach and close flyby in the summer of 2015....

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Jan. 18, that global surface temperatures in 2016 were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880....

[This is the first of new Daily Galaxy coverage on news of space-based and terrestrial cyber warfare] The hacker and activist collective Anonymous has warned Donald Trump that he is going to "regret" the next four years ...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - A U.S. Air Force missile defense reconnaissance observatory that will track the telltale infrared signatures of incoming enemy missiles and is vital to America's national security b...