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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.

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.

Unbeknownst to scientists, 34 years ago Voyager 2 flew through a plasmoid, a giant magnetic bubble that may have been whisking Uranus’s atmosphere out to space.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, has been verified as one of the key components of clouds at Uranus.

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.

Exploration Stories: Favorite Historical Moments - Voyager 2 Mission Team interviews

In a flurry of new moon discoveries in late 2000 and early 2001, it was announced by this author - and several other sources - that the planet Uranus had 21 moons.

Dr. Stone, JPL's director since 1991, is stepping down on May 1.

The first unmanned space probe flyby in history of the planet Uranus by Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986 should have been an exciting one in the history of planetary exploration.

What do you get if you mix together one part helium and five-and-a-half parts hydrogen, add a dash of methane, heat to 60 Kelvins (-351 degrees F) and let sit for over four billion years?

If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive storms, each one covering the country from Kansas to New York, with temperatures of 300 degrees below zero.