Backstage Pass to Iapetus

Former Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Edward Stone — currently the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at Caltech and the project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission for the past 47 years — has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

From now till Sept. 30, the public can submit names to be etched on microchips that will fly on the Mars 2020 rover and receive a souvenir boarding pass.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.

NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.

The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon and Buddha Purnima.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) completed 60,000 orbits around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT) on May 15, 2019.