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News Articles: Solar System

This chart of the night sky from NASA shows Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade" in January 2025.

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A rare 'parade' of all 7 planets will move across the night sky this week

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all present at the same time along a line in the night sky on Friday, NASA says.

February 27, 2025
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A false color view of Uranus made from images taken by Voyager 2 in January 1986.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Uranus was having a bad hair day. Hey, it was the '80s!

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the planet 38 years ago.

November 17, 2024
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  • Scott Simon

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COMIC: Our sun was born with thousands of other stars. Where did they all go?

Our sun was born in a cosmic cradle with thousands of other stars. Astrophysicists say they want to find these siblings in order to help answer the question: Are we alone out there?

April 18, 2024
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  • Connie Hanzhang Jin and
  • Regina G. Barber
The images taken by Voyager 2 when it passed Neptune in 1989 were originally processed to better reveal its distinctive features, but as a result they made the planet look too blue.

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  • Space

Don't look so blue, Neptune: Now astronomers know this planet's true color

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

January 05, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Small rocks and dust from an asteroid, outside a round sample collection device in a NASA lab.

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  • Space

Take a peek at what NASA brought back from an asteroid

Scientists are thrilled with the tiny asphalt-black rocks, and most of the sample hasn't even been revealed yet.

October 12, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
An artist's conception of the Psyche spacecraft approaching an asteroid that's largely composed of metal.

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  • Space

This next NASA mission to an asteroid is seriously metal

A NASA mission called Psyche is about to launch on a mission out to an unusual asteroid that's scientists believe is largely composed of metal.

October 11, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This mosaic composed of images of the asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows its surprisingly rubble-strewn surface.

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  • Space

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

September 22, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This artist's impression shows a hazy sub-Neptune-sized planet recently observed with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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  • Space

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a mysterious planet to be weirdly shiny

Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at a common kind of planet that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. What they saw wasn't what they expected.

May 10, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
An artist's vision of the first interstellar object discovered in the solar system, 'Oumuamua.

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  • Science

Scientists think they know why interstellar object 'Oumuamua moved so strangely

A strange comet-like object discovered over five years ago was the first known visitor from another solar system. Its movement was so odd that scientists struggled to explain it, until now.

March 24, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This composite was made with images from NASA's Juno mission and shows the shadow on Jupiter cast by Io, one of its many moons.

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  • Science

Here's why Jupiter's tally of moons keeps going up and up

The first astronomer to discover moons around Jupiter was Galileo, back in the year 1610, but astronomers are still finding more and more moons around this gas giant.

February 09, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images collected on Dec. 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles.

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  • Science

A NASA Spacecraft Successfully Touched Down On A Rocky Asteroid

NASA has collected and is returning its first sample from an asteroid. The rocks and dust could help us understand potentially dangerous space rocks and the history of the solar system.

October 20, 2020
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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