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With this view, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. The Saturn system has been Cassini's home for 13 years, but its journey will end on 15 September.

Two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut were set to blast off for the International Space Station Tuesday in a late-night launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

See photos of the astronauts and cosmonauts in the Expedition 53 mission to the International Space Station.

The international Cassini mission reaches its dramatic finale this Friday by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, concluding 13-years of exploration around the ringed planet.

Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon The post Cassini Conduct a Final Flyby of Titan Before Crashing into Saturn ...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center remained closed Tuesday but appeared to have weathered Hurricane Irma well.

Astronomers studying the unique binary star system AR Scorpii have discovered the brightness of the system has changed over the past decade. The new evidence lends support to an existing theory of how the unusual star em...

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The U.S. Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 is badly in need of updating, as the world has changed dramatically in the last 25 years, and so has the commercial remote sensing industry. SpaceNews.com

Let us issue a new pledge for a new era of space-based research: "We choose to rebuild Houston, for the good of the nation and the greatness of education in general." SpaceNews.com

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2017 captured on video below. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar f...

The requirement for higher and higher bandwidth will remain the major driver shaping future satellite infrastructure and services in the next five years, according to Mark Dankberg, chairman and CEO of Viasat. SpaceNews....

This bunny-suited technician is performing the important task of ensuring no unwanted infrared light interferes with the optical testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope inside of Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Ce...

The OneWeb-Airbus joint venture tasked with building 900 satellites for OneWeb plans to keep its first production line in France running to build satellites for other operators. SpaceNews.com

J.J. Abrams has agreed to return to the "Star Wars" franchise to co-write/direct/produce 2019's "Star Wars: Episode IX." This comes after the departure of original director Colin Trevorrow.

Satellite operator SES has selected Arianespace to launch a fifth set of O3b satellites as well as a large geostationary orbit communications satellite, the companies announced Sept. 12. SpaceNews.com

International Launch Services last night (Sept. 11) conducted the second of three commercial Proton launches planned for this year to orbit the Amazonas-5 satellite for Hispasat.

After examining some 100,000 nearby large galaxies in 2015 a team of researchers lead by The Pennsylvania State University astronomer Jason Wright concluded that none of them contain any obvious signs of highly advanced ...

Blue Origin will likely launch the third iteration of its New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle by year's end, paving the way for a human-rated version and ironing out the reusability plan for the orbital New Glenn rocke...

Tycho Brahe made many significant contributions to astronomy.

WFIRST will provide imaging and spectroscopic capabilities from 0.6-2.0 µm and will be a potential contemporary and eventual successor to JWST....

Three Expedition 53 crewmembers will blast off to the International Space Station today (Sept. 12), and you can watch the liftoff live.