In Depth | James Webb Space Telescope – NASA Solar System Exploration

Scientists have used total solar eclipses for over a century to learn more about our universe, including deciphering the Sun’s structure.

Total Solar Eclipses Shine a Light on the Solar Wind with Help from ACE

NASA approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful review.

NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development

Planet Hunters TESS has announced the discovery of two exoplanets in a study listing citizen scientists as co-authors.

Citizen Scientists Discover Two Gaseous Planets around a Bright Sun-like Star

ESA has announced the EnVision mission to Venus as its newest medium-class science mission, and NASA has just announced two missions to Venus.

Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA's New Venus Mission

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision ‘Eyes'

The Sun has revealed new clues that could help scientists solve the mystery of what causes its powerful and unpredictable eruptions.

Rosetta Stone Eruption on the Sun Could Help Explain Solar Explosions

This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Hubble Images a Galaxy in Dazzling Detail

The spacecraft successfully cleared some dust off its solar panels, helping to raise its energy and delay the need to switch off its science instruments.

NASA's InSight Mars Lander Gets a Power Boost

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.

NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable' World of Venus

NASA’s DAVINCI+ mission will explore Venus to determine if it was ever habitable.

NASA to Explore Divergent Fate of Earth's Mysterious Twin with DAVINCI+

The Lucy spacecraft undergoes integration and testing at the Lockheed Martin cleanroom in Denver Colorado.

NASA's Lucy in the Cleanroom

The science team is studying the clouds, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars

The next full Moon is the Super Flower Blood Moon. There will also be a lunar eclipse.

The Next Full Moon is the Super Flower Blood Moon and an Eclipse

Astronomers using Hubble have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.

Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies' Spiral Arms

A NASA team has found that organic salts are likely present on Mars.

Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find

Scientists will use Webb to study part of the Orion Bar to learn more about the influence massive stars have on their environments.

NASA's Webb to Study How Massive Stars' Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new e-book called “Hubble Focus: The Lives of Stars.”

New Hubble E-Book Provides Front Row Seat to the Stars

On April 15, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the intriguing evolution of “Clyde’s Spot.”

Juno Returns to "Clyde's Spot" on Jupiter

After glimpsing faint but widespread super-heated material in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, a NASA sounding rocket is going back for more.

NASA Rocket Chasing the Source of the Sun's Hot Atmosphere

On Feb. 12, 2021, the European Space Agency, and NASA’s Solar Orbiter imaged this coronal mass ejection.

A New Space Instrument Captures Its First Solar Eruption

This Hubble image shows emission nebula NGC 2313. Emission nebulae are bright, diffuse clouds of ionized gas that emit their own light.

Hubble Spots a Cosmic Cloud's Silver Lining

A new video gives viewers the sensation of standing on the Red Planet and seeing the action firsthand.

Seeing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D

Researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland have imagined a new, early-stage concept for a lander to Saturn’s moon Titan.

Glenn Researchers Study New, Futuristic Concept to Explore Titan

NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will demonstrate laser communications technologies.

Laser Communications: Empowering More Data Than Ever Before

In 2012 Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. Now, it's yielding new insights into what that frontier is like.

As NASA's Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves

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Supermoon and Jet (2017)

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Sunset at Mars' Gusev Crater (Spirit)

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Enhanced-Color Composite Image of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth (2014 MU69)

Goals	Webb is a next-generation space telescope capable of studying every phase in the development of our Universe.
Launch Date	~2021
Science Targets	Our Solar System, Beyond Our Solar System
Type	Orbiter
Agency	NASA
Mission Website	https://jwst.nasa.gov/index.html