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The next full Moon will be early Sunday morning, July 5, 2020. There also will be a partial penumbral eclipse of the Moon.

NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters for as many as six additional flights.

Didymos B is getting an official name of its own: Dimorphos.

Planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva created the sunset simulations while building a tool for a possible mission to Uranus.

A new mission competing for selection under NASA's Discovery Program would try to untangle the mysteries of Neptune's strange moon Triton.

The rocket booster segments that will help power NASA’s first Artemis flight test mission around the Moon arrived at KSC.

NASA's Lunar Flashlight, a briefcase-sized satellite, or CubeSat, will detect surface ice believed to be at the bottom of craters on the Moon that have never been exposed to sunlight. This may help provide water for astronauts exploring the Moon during the Artemis program.

Before NASA’s mighty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket can blast off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center to send the Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit, teams across the country conduct extensive tests. Guiding that effort are NASA test directors, or NTDs.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies for new missions.

The Voyager imaging team asked for the photo to show Earth’s vulnerability — to illustrate how small, fragile and irreplaceable it is on a cosmic scale.

Naiad and Thalassa race around the ice giant in odd orbits seemingly to avoid each other.

Humanity's first and (so far) last visit to the outermost giant planet in our solar system was a monumental event for scientists and the public alike.

Our solar system is a stormy place. Join us on a tour of storms.

The next-generation radiometer is being developed to study the atmospheres of Uranus or Neptune, but could be used to study any atmosphere.

Long-term observations of Neptune have allowed scientists observe storm formation and also to track storm evolution on the ice giant.

Meet the women leading two of humankind's two most distant space missions.

Scientists may have an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered with Hubble in 2013.

Hubble uncovered a new dark storm on Neptune and provided a fresh look at a long-lived storm on Uranus.

Quite a few candles have been lit since NASA was born on Oct. 1, 1958. Here’s a quick look back at some highlights from six decades of exploration—and a glimpse of what’s ahead.

Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

We're talking about the ice giants. These are two enormous planets in our outer solar system: Uranus and Neptune.

It's never too late to appreciate the far-reaching influence the Voyagers have had—including pop culture.

Ten things to know about Voyager 2 on the 40th anniversary of its launch.

August 25, 1989: Neptune is in view. It is the middle of the night and everything is happening fast at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.