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China launched four new communications satellites this week in two launches from different launch sites, within hours.

Two cosmonauts completed the first in a series of spacewalks needed to outfit a newly-added Russian module to the International Space Station.

For centuries, sailors have been reporting strange encounters like this one.

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In this week's Night Sky column, we provide a potpourri of factoids concerning some of the more prominent objects appearing in the summertime sky.

New blueprint variant covers from Marvel's "Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters" comics offer a detailed glimpse at bounty hunter spaceships.

The latest installment in the Halo series will be released on Dec. 8

This striking image features a relatively rare celestial phenomenon known as a Herbig-Haro object. This particular object, named HH111, was imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites was destroyed in an explosive fireball after suffering an "anomaly" off the California coast during its first attempt at reaching Earth's orbit.