Spacecraft at JPL

This graphic shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus' south polar terrain by the method of triangulation.

NASA scientists pioneered new techniques to effectively peer beneath Greenland's thick ice sheet and into the crust itself.

Rosaly Lopes shares how she was inspired to help the exploration of space and how that lead to her role as a planetary scientist.

Since the 1960’s, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the Moon’s poles. 

Dr. Bonnie Buratti describes her background as well as her role as a senior research scientist.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory takes a series of images every 45 seconds in a very narrow range of wavelengths in visible light of the solar photospher...

This movie sequence shows highlights of the Cassini spacecraft's Sept. 26, 2005, flyby of the odd, icy moon Hyperion.

Here is a rover's eye view of driving, scooping and drilling during Curiosity's first year on Mars, August 2012 through July 2013.

Everyone likes to check the weather in a far away destination before they travel there. This is especially true for spaceflight, where the destination may be where no one has gone before.

Ben Holt tells how he fell in love with the ocean as a teenager and how that lead to a career as a research scientist.

This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. 

This audio clip was created from radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on the Cassini spacecraft.

Take a flight over dwarf planet Ceres in this video made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Cassini mission planners created this animation to showcase Cassini's final 22 orbits - the mission's Grand Finale.

As millions of people observed the total lunar eclipse on October 8, 2014, MESSENGER was also watching from Mercury.

For 13 years the spacecraft’s incredible, truly otherworldly images have revealed the wonder of Saturn in surprising, often awe-inspiring ways.

This infrared movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the churning of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."

NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft have new names, thanks to some enthusiastic 4th graders from Montana, who reveal the names in dramatic fashion.

The sequence of seven images in this animation shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of...

What incredible things will the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn see and do over the next few years?

Arrival at Saturn

Spacecraft Trajectory

Sungrazing comets are a special class of comets that come very close to the sun at their nearest approach, a point called perihelion.

Have you ever seen a meteorite streaking across the sky? If so, you may very well have seen part of the asteroid, Vesta!