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A wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way.

As astronomers discovered asteroids hiding in Jupiter’s Lagrange points, they began referring to them as “Trojan asteroids.”

JPL's lucky peanuts are an unofficial tradition at big mission events.

This view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams.

Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the atmosphere of Mars, new research shows.

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They focus on our star, but three of NASA’s Sun-watching spacecraft have also captured unique views of the planets.

Images of Jupiter’s hot spots are key to understanding the role of storms and waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

The spacecraft will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter and its rings and moons.

Jupiter, left, and Saturn, right, above Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the “great conjunction.”

Skywatchers are in for a treat soon as Jupiter and Saturn appear to merge into what's become popularly known as the "Christmas Star."

Some of Juno's latest findings touch on "hot spots" in the planet's atmosphere.

Tips for photographing the sky during December's conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter

NASA’s VIPER will be the first off-world rover to have its brains split in two as it explores the Moon’s surface in search of water ice.

For Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon, two space weather instrument suites, NASA’s HERMES and ESA’s ERSA, will provide an early forecast.

Plumes of water vapor that may be venting into space from Jupiter's moon Europa could come from within the icy crust itself, according to new research.

New experiments re-create the environment of Europa and find that the icy moon shines, even on its nightside. The effect is more than just a cool visual.

NASA scientists have identified a molecule in Titan’s atmosphere that has never been detected in any other atmosphere.

The next full Moon will be on the morning of Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, The Moon will appear full for about three days, making this a full Moon weekend.

New results from NASA's Juno mission suggest that either "sprites" or "elves" could be dancing in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

Made of a pair of two-wheeled vehicles, DuAxel is designed to descend craters and near-vertical cliffs on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

The next full Moon will be on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 1, 2020. The Moon will appear full from Wednesday morning through Saturday morning.

Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission.

Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

The Hubble image includes a new storm brewing on Jupiter, and a cousin of the famous Great Red Spot region gearing up to change color.

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