April 29, 2014 CHARM Telecon

A total lunar eclipse, Leonid meteors, and the Moon visits Mars, Saturn, and Spica.

Happy Halloween, space explorers. Perhaps you could carve a few moments out of your busy schedule to join me for a haunted hayride to some of the more disturbing destinations of your sinister littl...

OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth in 2023 with its precious sample of asteroid Bennu.

NASA’s Lucy mission is heading to the Jupiter Trojans – but first, it's returning home for an Earth gravity assist. 

Shadow of an annular eclipse seen from the International Space Station on May 20, 2012.

An annular solar eclipse photographed on May 20, 2012.

An annular solar eclipse creates a "ring of fire" around the Moon, similar to that seen in this image taken by JAXA/NASA Hinode spacecraft.

An annular solar eclipse over New Mexico.

An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon eclipses the Sun while it is at its farthest point from Earth, making it appear too small to block out the entire solar disk.

Employees and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory stopped to watch the Aug. 21, 2017, solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.

Employees and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory stopped to watch the Aug. 21, 2017, solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.

The Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse as seen by the people attending the viewing event at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, Salem, Oregon.

This full-disk geocolor image from the GOES-16 satellite shows the shadow of the Moon covering a large portion of the northwestern United States on Aug. 21, 2017.

This composite image shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse over Ross Lake, in Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

As millions of people across the United States experienced a total eclipse as the umbra, or Moon’s shadow passed over them, only six people witnessed the umbra from space. Viewing the eclipse from ...

A total solar eclipse is seen on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 from onboard a NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Gulfstream III 25,000 feet above the Oregon coast.

This composite image, made from seven frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclip...

The Baily's Beads effect is seen as the Moon makes its final move over the Sun during the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon.

The last glimmer of the sun is seen as the Moon makes its final move over the sun during the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon.

Some prominences are seen as the moon begins to move off the sun during the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon.

This composite image of thirteen photographs shows the progression of a total solar eclipse, from right to left, at Madras High School in Madras, Oregon on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

A total solar eclipse is seen on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon.

Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first-ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.

Jupiter and Saturn all night, Mars begins its retrograde motion, and the Orionid meteors peak!

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