Jupiter Magnetosphere

As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the "heliosphere" around our solar system.

On March 6, the Dawn spacecraft will slip into orbit around Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the main asteroid belt.

This computer-generated animation shows all of Cassini's orbits - affectionaly called the "ball of yarn" by mission planners.

This visualziation shows the major fragments of comet Showmaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter in 1994.

On Jan. 22, 2012, the Sun erupted with a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a burst of highly energetic protons known as solar energetic particles.

This animated graphic shows how Saturn and its moon Enceladus are electrically linked.

With Cassini’s exploration of Saturn coming to a dashing end in a few months, the mission team scheduled an “All Cassini Plus Alumni” group photo on Wednesday, June 21,2017 to commemorate the event. 

This video shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like.

Saturn's two-faced moon tilts and rotates for Cassini in this mesmerizing movie sequence of images acquired during the spacecraft's close encounter with Iapetus on Nov. 12, 2005.

No one really knew what Vesta looked like until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft decided to drop in on it. Now, images taken by the spacecraft have been stitched together to create a virtual flyover of the j...

Find Mars all month after sunset, especially on the night of NASA's planned rover landing, Feb. 18.

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

This short movie shows the view of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Dec. 7, 2018 to Jan. 1, 2019. During the approach, Ultima Thu...

Big water news from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.

Release of Probe

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."

What's Up for March? Planet-palooza in the morning, a "Sirius" look at the Dog Star, and an evening trio at the end of the month.

See highlights from the scene at JPL on April 26-27, 2017, and some of the first raw images the spacecraft sent back from its closest-ever look at Saturn’s atmosphere.

After a 15-year wait, equinox arrived at Saturn and Cassini was there to witness the spectacle of light and shadow.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 12, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

November 2020 skywatching highlights: Look for the Pleiades, the Moon with Jupiter and Saturn, and Earthshine illuminating the Moon.

After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface of the Red Planet, it has to survive the harrowi...

Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn's B ring, NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring.

What's Up for August? This month our main focus is the Perseid meteor shower.

Perseverance has a twin: Meet OPTIMISM