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Astronomers using Hubble watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet.

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.

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 peak after midnight on Wednesday morning, Sept. 2, 2020, The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday evening through Thursday morning.

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has captured these six infrared views of the Martian moon Phobos.

Infrared images from NASA's Juno spacecraft are providing the first glimpse of Ganymede's icy north pole.

NASA's next giant leap may be aided by tiny lunar robots that would help scout the lunar surface.

Technicians recently finished applying more than 180 blocks of ablative material to the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft.

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.

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

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

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.