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NASA's Juno mission, launched nearly five years ago, will soon reach its final destination: the most massive planet in our solar system, Jupiter. On the evening of July 4, at roughly 9 p.m. PDT (12 a.m. EDT, July 5), the...

Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69. The spacecraft's planned rendezvous wit...

On Monday, the NASA's Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter. Bill Nye explains Jupiter's deadly radiation. Jupiter produces the radiation equivalent of 100 million X-rays. Nye explains how NASA protects the instruments ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has crossed the boundary of Jupiter's immense magnetic field. Juno's Waves instrument recorded the encounter with the bow shock over the course of about two hours on June 24, 2016....

On June 28, the booster for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was fired up for a major two-minute full-duration qualification ground test at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems' test facilities in Promontory, Utah....

Listen to Jupiter's strange voice as the robotic explorer moves into a polar orbit around the gas giant. "We have over five years of spaceflight experience and only 10 days to Jupiter orbit insertion," said Rick Nybakken...

Fly along with NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Turn on your sound to find out more about the planet, the mission and the spacecraft....

NASA released a photo of Pluto's moon Charon the other day, and in the article about it they mentioned something I hadn't thought of when I first saw the close-up photos of Charon last year. And I really should have! Fir...

The Russian ISS Progress 62 cargo ship re-docked to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment at 2:05 a.m. EDT after a short test flight....

If all goes according to plan Monday night (July 4), NASA's Juno probe will slip into orbit around Jupiter and get its first taste of the solar system's most intense radiation environment.

Sunrise on our Planet Earth. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams captured the images for this composite....

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