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One of dozens of amateur images of Jupiter already loaded onto the Junocam site.

The Juno Team Wants Your Pictures of Jupiter

Amateur astronomers are encouraged to send in their best shots.

Kenneth Snelson's "Needle Tower" sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. is an example of a tensegrity structure.

Growable Spacecraft: A Solution to Artificial Gravity?

Modules made of tough plastic may be the next big thing in space construction.

Neptune as seen by Voyager 2 in 1989.

NASA’s Kepler Telescope Takes a Close Look at One of Our Own Planets

New data on Neptune could help astronomers better understand brown dwarfs.

With their active jets of gas and dust, comets are not easy places to explore.

Future E-Gliders Could ‘Fly’ on Airless Worlds

A NASA advanced concepts grant explores aeronautics without the aero.

A menagerie of known trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), shown to scale.

Any More Big Planets Out There?

Pluto is not the only large object beyond Neptune.

"Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine)" by Felice Giani, ca. 1820. The dwarf planet is named after Pluto, Roman god of the underworld, who is seated in the middle on the platform at the right; names for newly discovered planetary features will likely follow this theme.

Pluto’s Naming Game

New Horizons is about to discover a mess of new planetary features. What will we call them?

Artist’s view of LADEE sending a laser signal to Earth in 2013.

Coming Soon: Interplanetary Broadband

When it comes to spacecraft communications, we’re still in the age of dial-up. That’s about to change.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the camera at the end of its arm last April and May to take dozens of images that were combined into this self-portrait.

Follow the Methane!

Scientists ponder their next steps in the search for life on Mars.

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