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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989.

On March 6, the Dawn spacecraft will slip into orbit around Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the main asteroid belt.

This short animation created by Cassini's mission planning team shows the spacecraft's final orbits - starting with the Ring-Grazing orbits in November 2016 and transitioning to the Grand Finale or...

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

A curated just-for-kids NASA video playlist. 

What's Up for January? Morning meteors, Mars meets its "rival," and the Moon comes around for another visit with Venus.

Ceres' lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists.

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2021, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. 

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.

Cassini mission leads Earl Maize and Linda Spilker talked about the spacecraft's epic journey and science - and the exciting two-part grand finale.

This simulated voyage over the surface of Neptune's large moon Triton was produced using topographic maps derived from images acquired by NASA's Voyager spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, 20 ...

What can you see in the April sky? The Moon visits Mars in the evening, and later joins Saturn and Jupiter for a spot of tea. Also, how to find Polaris, the North Star.

This is a compilation of the Saturn hexagon movies released on Dec. 5, 2013.

Sungrazing comets are a special class of comets that come very close to the sun at their nearest approach, a point called perihelion.

Giovanni Cassini, the astronomer, discovers a moon near Saturn. Half is dark as coal. The other half, bright as snow. Three centuries later, Cassini, the spacecraft, flies by for a close look.

Explore. Create. Share. How has Cassini inspired you?

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

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 skywatching highlights in June 2020? Look for the Summer Triangle, keep tabs on the morning planets and June 20 brings the solstice.

The beauty and spectacle of celestial motion is captured in this short movie of a moon shadow darting across Saturn's rings.

As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the "heliosphere" around our solar system.

This animation illustrates the path the Cassini spacecraft will take during its four year mission at Saturn.

This data visualization represents twenty years' worth of data showing the abundance of life both on land and in the sea. 

This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere and in order of temperature from the first one at 6,000 degrees C on the surface out to about 10 million degrees C.

A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley's Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs, and a "blue moon" on May 18th.