What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this ...

Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

An illustration of NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through a ... algorithms onboard space missions to facilitate and enable real-time decision-making. These technologies can be used for ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

More missions—19 since the 1960s—have made ... CICLOPS, Space Science Institute In this image, the Cassini spacecraft captured a near alignment of four of Saturn's moons (Titan, Dione ...

The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such ...

SEE ALSO: Cassini, one of humanity's best spacecraft, is officially dead at Saturn Even though the mission's end was planned for years, it didn't make it any easier to watch lines of data come ...

The mission will come to an end on September 15 when Cassini makes a planned plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, burning up in the process. Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for ...

According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...