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Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on 15 September 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant's atmosphere....

GapSat, a company that resells underused satellite capacity, is entering the market with a satellite of its own through the Lockheed Martin-backed Terran Orbital. SpaceNews.com

According to a new study by an international team of astronomers, last year's kilonova event (where two neutron stars merged) resulted in a jet of material traveling at close to the speed of light. The post Superfast Jet...

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) has rescheduled the launch of its HTV-7 resupply ship to the International Space Station to Thursday, U.S. time....

Galaxies like our own Milky Way are factories that use gravity to fashion new stars out of molecular hydrogen gas.

We're back into the weird science of black holes in this week's installment of "Ask a Spaceman." In this episode, astrophysicist and Space.com columnist Paul Sutter explains why a black hole is doomed to die from the mom...

While Polaris is far from being the brightest star in the sky, finding it is not as hard as it may seem!

The planet-enveloping dust storm on Mars has settled enough for NASA to start a 45-day active-listening period in which the agency hopes to make contact with the rover Opportunity after three months of silence.

NASA's gigantic, ultrathin balloon, known as the "Big 60," broke a sustainable-altitude record when it took to the skies last month.

OneWeb in 2015 set the goal of building 900 satellites for no more $500,000 a piece. Now the startup's president will only say "below $1 million." SpaceNews.com

Venture capitalists see no sign of a slowdown in funding of space-related startups even though only a handful of those companies have provided significant returns to their investors. SpaceNews.com

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Descartes Labs, a $2.9 million contract to bring its geospatial analytics platform into DARPA's geospatial cloud, the Santa Fe, New Mexico, startup announced Sept. 12...

Russia on Wednesday reacted angrily to a report that it suspects US astronauts of deliberately drilling a hole on the International Space Station, one of the few remaining areas of cooperation between the countries.

McDonald Observatory:

Just one week after ESA's Aeolus satellite shone a light on our atmosphere and returned a taster of what's in store, this ground-breaking mission has again exceeded all expectations by delivering its first data on wind -...

Gearing up for its first flight test, NASA's Adaptable Deployable Entry Placement Technology, or ADEPT, is no ordinary umbrella. ADEPT is a foldable device that opens to make a round, rigid heat shield, called an aeroshe...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wowed the world with his guitar-playing and social media skills. Five years later, a new astronaut, David Saint-Jacques, is poised to launch on to the world stage. Can we expect an encor...

A strange pair of space rocks twirling around each other as they orbit the sun has helped scientists pinpoint when our solar system developed its current formation.

Water trapped in dust grains from which the Earth formed can explain the current large amount of water on Earth.

NASA will run its final parachute test for the Orion spacecraft on Sept. 12 as the agency readies Orion for its first uncrewed mission around the moon.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. Then, it grabs images like this.

A student who began her master's degree in May partnered with an international team of researchers to discover a special cosmic neighbor twice the size of Earth.