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New research suggests Saturn's rings may last a trillion years before fading away — and Cassini's ring dives will help test the th...

Audio recordings from the spacecraft reveal a surprising lack of dust between Saturn and its rings, as Cassini continues taking breathtaking photos of the distant...

NASA is years away from having new spacesuits for its deep-space astronauts despite spending nearly $200 million on three separate development efforts over the past...

The spacecraft's last act will be a data-harvesting dive that collects the most detailed observations ever obtained of Saturn's atmosphere and ring...

NASA hasn't planned any follow-on missions for Enceladus, but it could be selected for a current or future round of planetary missions.

Composite images constructed from observations made by the space agency's Hubble telescope and Voyager 2 probe show the planet's ring system and bright auroras lighting up its...

The same chemical reactions that sustain life near deep-sea hydrothermal vents here on Earth could potentially be occurring within the moon's subsurface...

The Blue Origin founder and CEO says his company has no plans to install systems on New Shepard to deal with human waste during flight.

A new massive storm has been spotted in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, and it's considerably cooler than its blistering surroundings.

The event, captured by telescopes in Chile, took place roughly 500 years ago in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1, located about 1,500 light-years from Earth....

Studying the dust particles around Jupiter's famous icy moon would indirectly reveal details about its surface, and its habitability...

While there are atmospheres around much larger gas giants orbiting other stars, this is the first evidence of an atmosphere around an exoplanet that's near Earth's...

Dimensions are complicated, and wrapping your mind around how many there are can give you a headache. Join Trace as he explains everything you should know about...

A system of radio telescopes around the world is peering at the gigantic black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a behemoth called Sagittarius...

A new paper suggests using a combination lottery and savings bond to ensure funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

A new study pursues a kind of “paleontology” for gravitational waves in an attempt to explain how and why black holes collide and...

The spacecraft's last act will be a data-harvesting dive that collects the most detailed observations ever obtained of Saturn's atmosphere and ring...