Unveiling Rogue Planets

November 2021 skywatching highlights: Planets after sunset, a partial lunar eclipse, and the familiar stars of winter return.

This time-lapse video shows the space station's Candarm2  maneuvering NASA’s EMIT mission onto the exterior of the station. 

After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface of the Red Planet, it has to survive the harrowi...

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

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.

  After decades of exploration, Voyager 1 reaches a historic milestone for mankind, interstellar space.

Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first-ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.

One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of t...

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

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

This new animation shows us that Saturn's moon Titan has more in common with Earth than we thought.

This artist's concept shows "tides" on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a rubble pile of rocks and boulders left over from the formation of the solar system. 

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

A shortened, 54-second version of Cassini's Grand Finale animation showing the spacecraft's final moments.

This audio clip was created from radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on the Cassini spacecraft.

Animated Spacecraft

The scientific community is incredibly excited to have these two highly complementary observatories operating together. 

Animation of Cassini's final orbit, leading to a pass by the moon Titan which sends the spacecraft plunging into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017. 

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

JPL's Dawn mission is en route to rendezvous with the main-belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and is using ion propulsion to get there.

Blanket Protection

This video from NASA's Dawn mission shows that the gravity field of Vesta closely matches the surface topography of the giant asteroid Vesta.

This movie shows Mercury's globe as it rotates. 

Cassini stares deep into the swirling hurricane-like vortex at Saturn's south pole, where the vertical structure of the clouds is highlighted by shadows.