Blanket Protection

Vesta and Ceres reside in the boundary area of the asteroid belt, where the composition of bodies changes from being almost dry to showing the effects of hydration.

Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, "The Nutcracker," a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini spacecra...

Io Color Eclipse

Episode 1: What is a dwarf planet?

The moon Tethys is joined by two smaller moons in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

A simplified model of Jupiter's massive magnetic field, known as a  magnetosphere.

Celebrate Earth Day 2018 with these images of Earth from afar.

Hear about what we know about Titan topics that were investigated early in Cassini’s mission. Learn what questions have baffled and perplexed Cassini scientists for a long while (cough cough cryovo...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

  Take a virtual ride with Voyager 1 and 2 past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

A mission concept to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus.

The Usual Suspects: Science research is like detective work. One scientist takes his case to California's Death Valley, to search for clues surrounding a Titan lake.

An overview video of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this movie recorded by Cassini.

Mating of LVA

This movie is based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn's moon Titan known as Sotra Facula

The beauty and spectacle of celestial motion is captured in this short movie of a moon shadow darting across Saturn's rings.

Go, Atlas. Go, Centaur. Go, InSight! NASA's InSight mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mars on May 5, 2018—the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. 

This video shows the intriguing Occator Crater on Ceres, home to the dwarf planet's brightest area.

A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley's Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs, and a "blue moon" on May 18th.

Surrounding Earth is a giant magnetic field called the magnetosphere. Its shape is defined not only by the planet's north and south magnetic poles, but also by a steady stream of particles coming i...

This animated movie shows the simulated solar wind velocity from March 21 to May 10, 2013. 

This animation, derived from data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, shows how plasma swirling around Saturn is correlated to bursts of radio waves emanating from the planet.

As Titan Turns

The Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in June 2004 and is now halfway through its mission. A new photo essay showcases some stunning images returned by the mission.