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After orbiting Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is getting ready to say goodbye. On Monday (Aug. 14), Cassini made the first of five passes through Saturn’s...

An unmanned rocket turned night into day early Thursday (Aug. 30) as two heavily armored NASA spacecraft finally launched into orbit study Earth’s harsh radiation belts after a week of...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft now has some nice photos of home to look at during its long flight to a distant asteroid. OSIRIS-REx took a picture of the Earth-moon system on...

NASA’s newest planet-hunter is taking part in the hunt for intelligent aliens. The space agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission will collaborate with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project...

Space scientists may have missed alien probes because they’re just too small. That’s the bold claim from an astrophysicist who reckons we’ve been looking for extraterrestrial life the wrong way....