Jupiter Magnetosphere

This still from a movie shows an image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft layered on a digital terrain model of an unusual hill containing a dark-rayed impact crater and nearby dark deposit on asteroi...

Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

To prepare the new Perseverance rover for its big day on Mars, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team conducted a wide array of tests to ensure a successful entry, descent, and landing at the Red Planet.

Following critical mirror alignment steps, the Web team is confident the observatory will meet or exceed its science goals.

We know what the Red Planet looks like from the outside – but what's going on under the surface of Mars?

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched toward Pluto in 2006, but the mission can trace its start back to 1930, when Clyde Tombaugh discovered the small planet and opened the door to a new, mysteri...

Phillip Chamberlin expresses his enthusiasm for science and describes how he became a research astrophysicist.

NASA has dozens of robotic spacecraft exploring our solar system – and beyond. So how exactly do we navigate spacecraft that are so far away? 

Possible ‘Survivor' Planet Spotted Hugging a White Dwarf Star

In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

A simulated flyover of the most intriguing landmarks on giant asteroid Vesta, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Known as the "Mother of Hubble," Dr. Nancy Grace Roman was instrumental in taking the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality.

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.

Explore Earth's magnetic 'dent'

This spectrogram and video show a changing pattern of radio waves from Saturn known as Saturn Kilometric Radiation, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Hidden details of our home galaxy — the Milky Way — are revealed in different wavelengths. 

This visualization tracks the trajectory of the Voyager 2 spacecraft through the solar system. 

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

Unveiling Rogue Planets

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. 

The geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2020.

A harvest moon and a blue moon, Mars is up all night, and a journey beyond the galaxy.

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission recently concluded a six-year field campaign in Greenland to measure how much the ocean is contributing to global sea-level rise by melting Greenland’s...

This is an animated artist interpretation of the area surrounding the Huygens landing site, based on images and data returned Jan. 14, 2005.

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.