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See close-up photos of Mimas, Saturn's Death Star-like moon, from the Cassini spacecraft.

See photos and scenes from "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" in this gallery.

The dramatic end of Europe's Rosetta comet mission was the most-watched Livestream event of 2016, and another space mission cracked the top five.

NASA doesn't plan to put any science instruments aboard SpaceX's first Mars mission, which could launch as early as 2018.

The last humans to leave their mark on the moon left a variety of Earthly technology upon the surface. The descent stage, the shadow of the American flag, the lunar rover and more are all seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Saturn and its rings may be the jewel of the solar system, but Jupiter has "pearls" and a NASA spacecraft has the picture to prove it.

Project Blue, a private initiative to put a small telescope into orbit to look at Alpha Centauri, will be taking questions via Twitter today (Dec. 14) between 2 and 3 p.m. EDTabout the quest to find a potentially habitable planet around that star.

Space experts weigh in on whether or not Star Wars' most infamous weapon could really be constructed and blow up planets.

SpaceX has delayed by several months a pair of test flights of its Crew Dragon spacecraft being developed for NASA's commercial crew program, in part because of a Falcon 9 pad explosion in September.

Parts of Mars were capable of supporting life as we know it for lengthy stretches in the ancient past — perhaps hundreds of millions of years at a time, new observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity suggest.

The gas giant formed out of the dust cloud known as the solar nebula.

Crewmembers simulating a Martian mission were caught in a unique 360-degree video yesterday (Tuesday) as they emerged from the habitat where they spent 80 days. National Geographic posted the video on its Facebook page.

President-elect Trump's choice for attorney general is also weighing in on space policy.

These futuristic medical devices can diagnose 13 different health conditions in minutes.

The lighting effects study on the International Space Station will use LED lights at different wavelengths to study how they impact the crew. The fluorescent lights on the ISS are being replaced by a multi-LED lighting system.

On Dec. 13, 2016, the Slooh MeteorCam at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands captured several images of Geminid meteors streaking across the sky. Slooh host Gerard Monteux explains.