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NASA Planetary Science Highlights: 2021
December 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Cold, Frost, and Winter Moon
Giving and Receiving: A Mission Tradition
November 2021: The next full Moon is a Near-Total Lunar Eclipse, the Beaver, Frost/Frosty, or Snow Moon
NASA's Lucy Mission: A Journey to the Young Solar System
What Are JPL's Lucky Peanuts?
October 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Hunter's Moon; the Travel, Dying Grass, Sanguine, or Blood Moon
September 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon; the Fruit or Barley Moon
40 Years On, Remembering Voyager's Legacy at Saturn
August 2021: The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, the Sturgeon or Green Corn Moon
How to Find Good Places to Stargaze
What is the North Star and How Do You Find It?
What Are Asterisms?
Five Things to Know about the Moon
July 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, Mead Moon
June 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon and a Marginal Supermoon
10 Things to Know About Planetary Analogs
One of NASA's Solar System Ambassadors Will Soon Be an Astronaut
May 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Super Flower Blood Moon and an Eclipse
How to Photograph the Moon
What is a Supermoon?
April 2021: The Next Full Moon Is a "Supermoon" Pink Moon
March 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon (and, By Some Definitions, a Supermoon)
February 2021: The Next Full Moon is the Snow, Storm, and Hunger Moon
How Will Perseverance Land on Mars?
10 Things to Expect in Planetary Science for 2021
January 2021: The Next Full Moon is Another Wolf Moon
Solar System News
A total solar eclipse will darken a swath of North America as the Moon blocks the light of the Sun for a few minutes on April 8, 2024. In addition to casting a breathtaking, passing shadow over the heads of millions of people, this total solar eclipse gives scientists a unique opportunity to study the Sun, Earth, and their interactions.
Science in the Shadows: NASA Selects 5 Experiments for 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
The short videos take audiences behind the scenes to learn more about how space missions come together.
New Video Series Captures Team Working on NASA's Europa Clipper
The next full Moon will be on Friday afternoon, May 5, 2023. The Moon will appear full from early Thursday morning through early Sunday morning.
The Next Full Moon is the Flower, Corn, or Corn Planting Moon
A new study using two NASA solar observatories reveals that asteroid 3200 Phaethon’s tail is not dusty at all but is actually made of sodium gas.
Asteroid's Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal
One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface.
Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Orbiter Retired
A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.
InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core
On April 20, a first-of-its-kind NASA-funded experiment will fly a scientific instrument on a large kite to study a total solar eclipse. Lifting off from Australia, the experiment aims to rise above any clouds that might block the instrument's view of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.
Clouds for Your Eclipse? NASA Experiment Will Fly Kite to Rise Above
The update brings loads of improvements, the most significant being new driving capabilities.
Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade
NASA’s Juno mission completed its 50th close pass by Jupiter on April 8, 2023. To mark the 50th close pass, NASA teamed up with Google Arts & Culture to feature a selection of JunoCam images.
Juno Marks 50 Orbits Around Jupiter
This wider view of the Uranian system features Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons.
The Uranian System
Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus.
NASA's Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus
NASA’s Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of the mission’s newest science campaign on Thursday, March 30.
Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign