Mapping Bennu

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

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

Bob Anderson describes his work as a geologist who helps design and uses robots to collect data about Mars.

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...

Hear about what we know about Titan topics that were investigated early in Cassini’s mission. Learn what questions have baffled and perplexed Cassini scientists for a long while (cough cough cryovo...

This animation re-creates the final descent of ESA's Huygens probe as it landed on Titan on Jan. 14, 2005, after it was dropped off by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Seeking August 2020 skywatching highlights? The Moon poses with the planets, and the Perseid meteors peak!

A curated just-for-kids NASA video playlist. 

Radar Mapping Titan

Like boot prints on the Moon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its mark on asteroid Bennu. Now, new images — taken during the spacecraft's final fly-over on April 7, 2021 — reveal the aftermath of...

This video shows the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors during their long string of tests, from individual segments to the final tests of the assembled mirror. 

This video highlights Dawn's top accomplishments during its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta.

High-Altitude Clouds

This movie captured by NASA'S Cassini spacecraft shows a south polar vortex, or a swirling mass of gas around the pole in the atmosphere, at Saturn’s moon Titan.

What can you see in the October sky? Join the global celebration of International Observe the Moon Night on Oct. 5th, then try to catch the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune.

Hidden details of our home galaxy — the Milky Way — are revealed in different wavelengths. 

The shadow of Saturn's moon Tethys seems to disappear as it crosses the planet's rings, demonstrating variations in the density of particles across the rings.

This visualziation shows the major fragments of comet Showmaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter in 1994.

OSIRIS-REx Prepares to Grab Sample of Asteroid Bennu

Cassini mission planners created this animation to showcase Cassini's final 22 orbits - the mission's Grand Finale.

Our planet is a beautiful water-filled world, teeming with life. But did you know that Earth is not the only world in our solar system with an ocean? Here’s what you need to know about Ocean Worlds.

The small moon Mimas passes in front of the larger moon Rhea, which is partly obscured by Saturn's rings, in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

While NASA's Cassini spacecraft was pointed to study Saturn's F ring, it happened to catch a globular star cluster passing through the camera's field of view.

This animation, derived from data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, shows how plasma swirling around Saturn is correlated to bursts of radio waves emanating from the planet.

On unexplored worlds, the sound of science is a harmonious melody of chimes, clicks and mechanical whirrs.