Earth's Magnetic Dent

What's Up for April? Morning planets, a sunset arch, and finding Leo the lion...

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

  This video drops in on mission control for NASA's Voyager spacecraft as Voyager 1 sends back data from the far reaches of our solar system.

The moon Tethys is joined by two smaller moons in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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

This is an animated artist interpretation of the area surrounding the Huygens landing site, based on images and data returned Jan. 14, 2005.

Spacecraft Full Stack

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...

When scientists and engineers want to send commands to a spacecraft in deep space, they turn to the Deep Space Network.

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.

At approximately 4:16 p.m. EDT on May 10, 2021, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will fire its main thrusters for seven minutes and start its long journey home with more than 60 grams (2.1 ounces) of a...

We know what the Red Planet looks like from the outside – but what's going on under the surface of Mars?

Watch as engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, await the final transmission from the Cassini spacecraft as it plunged into Saturn's atmosphere ending its 20-y...

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

NASA JPL Software Engineer Melissa Soriano describes the third potential target for Scientist for a Day contestants: Pluto's moon Charon.

Spacecraft Trajectory

Phillip Chamberlin expresses his enthusiasm for science and describes how he became a research astrophysicist.

View this beautiful visualization of the Dawn spacecraft on its journey to the main asteroid belt to Asteroid Vesta and Dwarf Planet Ceres.

A quick look at how a Bistatic Observation works.

Amateur video: Follow the Cassini spacecraft during its journey to and near Saturn.

What might a wet Mars have looked like? This artist's concept attempts to fill in the blanks.

This view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."

This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.

The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2017, at hourly intervals.

It’s hard to imagine what the surface of a dark, distant asteroid might look like, but NASA’s “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” brings us on a journey to see this landscape up close.