OSIRIS-REx Orbits

The little moon Daphnis and its entourage of waves on the edge of the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings cast long shadows in this movie created from images taken as the planet approaches its mid-August ...

Unveiling Rogue Planets

This animation shows "beacons" of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012. 

Winds around Jupiter's Great Red Spot are simulated in this JunoCam view that has been animated using a model of the winds there.

Celebrate Earth Day 2018 with these images of Earth from afar.

NASA’s Cassini mission will come to a spectacular close on September 15, 2017 after almost two decades in space since its launch in 1997.

NASA/JPL Science Writer Jay Thompson outlines the challenges in the latest Scientist for a Day essay content.

This movie sequence shows highlights of the Cassini spacecraft's Sept. 26, 2005, flyby of the odd, icy moon Hyperion.

It’s time to #UnfoldTheUniverse. Watch as the mission team reveals the long-awaited first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made a record-breaking 25th flight on April 18, 2022.

Seeking September 2020 skywatching highlights? Catch Venus and Mars with the Moon, and spot the flickering star Fomalhaut.

NASA scientists pioneered new techniques to effectively peer beneath Greenland's thick ice sheet and into the crust itself.

During its first operating cycle, the James Webb Space Telescope will set its sights on the TRAPPIST-1 system.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample of asteroid Bennu and discovered surprising details about its surface.

This graphic shows in a series of three images how Saturn's rings, after they became tilted relative to Saturn's equatorial plane, would have transformed into a corrugated ring.

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...

In this movie, strung together from a series of images provided by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, we see a full rotation of Vesta, which occurs over the course of roughly five hours. 

A team of three scientists have two minutes to complete an experiment during the 2017 total solar eclipse.

What can you see in the December sky? Beautiful pairings of planets and the crescent Moon throughout the month, at sunrise and sunset.

Flight across Titan

These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the changing appearance of the huge storm that developed from a small spot in Saturn's northern hemisphere.

Astronomy highlights for February 2020: it's the best time of the year to view Mercury; Mars disappears behind the Moon; and the bright red star on Orion’s shoulder, Betelgeuse, has been acting wei...

This is a computer simulation of the final stage of the growth of a "clump" in Saturn's rings.

On March 21, 2021, Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for winter 2020-2021, tying with 2007 for the seventh-lowest maximum on record.

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