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The Cassini mission to Saturn has sent home a wealth of beautiful images. NASA has compiled 100 of the most spectacular into a free e-book, downloadable from its website.

The huge, blistering-hot alien world WASP-12b reflects virtually none of the light that hits the planet, a new study reports.

NASA's Cassini mission came to an end on Sept. 15, 2017, when the spacecraft intentionally plunged into Saturn's atmosphere. Here are the photos from Cassini's grand finale.

NASA has awarded a contract to Leidos Innovations Corporation in Houston to provide pressurized cargo packing and unpacking for the International Space Station Program.

NASA selected AECOM Technical Services, Inc. of San Francisco to provide architectural and engineering services to the Facilities Engineering branch at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

The beginning of our universe - if there is one - is one of the big open questions in theoretical physics. The big bang is one of science's great mysteries, and it seems the plot has thickened thanks to new...      ...

New observations of WASP-12b conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet's sun-facing side "eats light". The post Hubble Spots Pitch Black Hot Jupiter that “Eats Light” appeared first on Universe...

BlackSky CEO and founder Jason Andrews announced the partnership Sept. 15 during the closing day of Euroconsult's World Satellite Business Week here. SpaceNews.com

Roger Roberts ended an eight-year stint as the head of Boeing space and intelligence systems in 2005 as his unit's marquee classified contract, the Future Imagery Architecture constellation of optical and radar reconnais...

For the world's leading satellite manufacturers, 2017 has been a rather disappointing year so far. Just four contracts have been signed this year for large geostationary communications satellites -- the traditional bread...

The Cassini team is proud of the little spacecraft that went far beyond expectations, sad to lose their constant view of Saturn and family of researchers, eager to return to that planet and its mesmerizing moons -- and r...

Disasters make news. Whether the catastrophe is an act of nature or humanity, we want to see it with our own eyes and share the experience of the people whose lives are turned upside down. We watch with a horrified fasci...

A new study evaluating models of future climate scenarios has led to the creation of the new risk categories "catastrophic" and "unknown" to characterize the range of threats posed by rapid global warming. Researchers pr...

Earth is the fifth largest planet in the solar system and the densest.

      

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended a nearly 20-year mission Sept. 15 with a plunge into the atmosphere of the planet Saturn intended to protect the planet's potentially habitable moons from contamination. SpaceNews.com

Read about the history and future of Earth's sun as well as fun facts about the sun's age, size, temperature, and phenomena like solar flares.

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows NGC 5398, a barred spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away.

Our week through the lens: 11-15 September 2017

Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a final command Friday morning to the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, putting the craft into a suicidal dive, plunging into the ringed planet's atmosphere....

The province of Syracuse on the southeastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite. The provincial capital - also called Syracuse - is visible in the lower-central...