Earth's Magnetic Dent

December 2020 skywatching highlights: Catch some Geminid meteors, then see Jupiter and Saturn get their closest in decades on the December solstice.

This Pride Month, NASA celebrates the significant contributions of LGBTQ+ employees.

February 2022 skywatching highlights: Jupiter stands alone after sunset, Venus is brilliant in the morning, and the Orion Nebula is well placed for evening skywatchers.

A short film from 1969 showing Ranger 9 images as it approached the Moon.

Lucy will be the first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids – small bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.

  Take a virtual ride with Voyager 1 and 2 past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

As the moon Enceladus eclipses its neighbor Mimas, Cassini records a scene possible only around the time of Saturn's approaching equinox.

Sound waves from the nascent universe, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), left their imprint on the cosmos by influencing galaxy distribution. Researchers have explored this imprint back t...

Ben Holt tells how he fell in love with the ocean as a teenager and how that lead to a career as a research scientist.

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

This animation shows the last 30 seconds of Cassini's X- and S-band radio signals as they disappeared from mission control on Sept. 15, 2017.

Part of the shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas appears as if it has been woven through the planet's rings in this unusual series of images from Cassini.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.

On February 24, 1987, observers in the southern hemisphere saw a new object in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. This was one of the brightest supernova explosi...

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

What has Perseverance accomplished since landing on Mars in February 2021? Surface Operations Mission Manager Jessica Samuels reflects on a year filled with groundbreaking discoveries.

Spacecraft Trajectory

A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.

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

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

This movie, comprised of several detailed images taken by Cassini's radar instrument, shows bodies of liquid near Titan's north pole.

The Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in June 2004 and is now halfway through its mission. A new photo essay showcases some stunning images returned by the mission.

The flight over Charon begins high over the hemisphere New Horizons saw on its closest approach, then descends over the deep, wide canyon of Serenity Chasma. 

This movie was built with data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency's Huygens Descent Imager/Sp...

This animated graphic shows how Saturn and its moon Enceladus are electrically linked.