Mapping Bennu

The history-making Viking 1 mission launched 35 years ago.

Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials.

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. 

Where is the edge of the solar system? The answer is not so simple.

High-Altitude Clouds

Hi, Everyone! My name's Morgan. My favorite topic is Enceladus.

This computer-generated view shows the view from the perspective of the Cassini spacecraft as it dives between the rings and Saturn's cloud tops.

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

This animation glides along the shoreline of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.

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

The tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion rotates away from the Cassini spacecraft in this movie taken during a distant encounter in Dec. 2005.

Cassini scientist Dr. Kevin Baines discusses Saturn's Cyclones.

Sample Asteroid Bennu in 360

This animation, from Cassini's navigation team, shows the spacecraft's final orbits in 2016 and 2017. 

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

A scientist's interpretation and visualization of the January 2005 descent and landing of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Titan.

What can you see in the February sky? Stars and planets with distinct red and blue colors, like Mars and Sirius.

Clouds move above Titan's large methane lakes and seas near the moon's north pole in this movie made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Explore Earth's magnetic 'dent'

A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The flare was the largest solar flare of the last decade. For one thing, it created a strong sh...

Great Dark Spot  

In August 2012, a long filament of solar material coalesced in the Sun's atmosphere. 

The moon Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring in this movie sequence of Cassini images.

This video describes a computer model that proposes a flow vortex in Saturn's upper atmosphere or ionosphere can explain periodic signatures observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in Saturn's magnet...

This artist's concept shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent sequence.