The Grand Finale

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used cameras to capture panoramas of this scene. 

On Nov. 24, 2021, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will lift off on a ten-month journey to crash into a distant asteroid – on purpose.

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. 

Video from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured a close-up view of the 13th flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, on Sept. 4, 2021.

NASA's robotic explorers are helping scientists learn about the weather on Mars.

November 2021 skywatching highlights: Planets after sunset, a partial lunar eclipse, and the familiar stars of winter return.

Go behind the scenes to see how NASA created its "Visions of the Future" posters.

This visualization shows the unusual motions of the Earth and Sun as viewed from the South Pole of the Moon. 

Discover the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission team. This episode features flight navigator Coralie Adam.

October 2021 skywatching highlights: Find the Moon with Venus and Arcturus after sunset, and Regulus and Mercury before sunrise. And get to know Vega and Deneb, two of the brightest stars in the No...

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.

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.

Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first journey to the Trojan asteroids, small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.

Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. 

Explore NASA’s 70-meter deep space communications antenna located at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in Barstow, California. 

September 2021 skywatching highlights: Planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are easy to spot in the evening sky, and if you're far enough south, you might spot Mercury. Plus, speedy stars Altair and ...

As NASA prepares to launch the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket on the uncrewed Artemis I mission around the Moon, we’ve already begun to take the next step.

NASA’s Curiosity rover explores Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the basin of Gale Crater on Mars.

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy. One of NASA's great observatories, Hubble has observed planets inside and outside our solar system and some of the most di...

On Sept. 25, 2135, an asteroid called Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth. Our planet’s gravity will tweak Bennu’s path, making it a challenge to calculate its future trajectory. During the flyb...

It’s hard to imagine what the surface of a dark, distant asteroid might look like, but NASA’s “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” brings us on a journey to see this landscape up close.

This infrared view of Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft during its July 20th, 2021, flyby. 

August 2021 skywatching highlights: August is prime time for the Perseids, and perhaps the best time this year to enjoy viewing Jupiter and Saturn.

This poster marks the 10th anniversary of NASA's Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta. The spacecraft orbited and explored Vesta from July 16, 2011, to Sept. 5, 2012. 

On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animati...