Perseverance's Twin

MESSENGER captured this departure sequence of Venus after a close flyby of the planet in 2007.

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.

This visualization of the Apollo 17 landing site uses real lunar orbiter data to retrace the paths of the astronauts during their three days of exploration.

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...

This video shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like.

Teams are working to prepare missions to bring the samples collected by the Mars Perseverance rover back to Earth. 

A team of three scientists have two minutes to complete an experiment during the 2017 total solar eclipse.

Jupiter Magnetosphere

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...

NASA's spacecraft on Mars are all affected by the winds, which can produce a tiny dust devil or a global dust storm. 

In this Voyager Update from the night of the Neptune encounter (25 August 1989), now Voyager Project Manager, Suzy Dodd speaks with such guests as Jay Holberg and Bill Kurth concerning the Voyager ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for nearly 13 years, is beginning its Grand Finale — and it's thanks to some Crazy Engineering!  A team of engineers called astrodynamicists use ma...

Welcome to the Scientist for a Day 2018-2019 essay contest.

The Dawn spacecraft visited the asteroid 4 Vesta for the time period May 3, 2011 to Sept. 5, 2012.

The volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46°S, 214.5°E) in Imdr Regio. 

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

Four short videos (<4 minutes) examine the challenges of NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission to touch the Sun. The spacecraft will enter the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, and make its closest appr...

As Titan Turns

What’s the latest news from Mars? NASA’s InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats are on their way to the Red Planet, a tiny helicopter will hitch a ride with the Mars 2020 rover mission, and Curiosity’s ...

NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid… on purpose! Our DARTmission is a first-of-its-kind PlanetaryDefense test.

Before NASA’s #DARTmission could launch on its journey to slam into an asteroid — in the name of science — it had to be designed, built, launched, and flown. 

When #Artemis I launches to the Moon and back there will be A LOT of science hitching a ride! 

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

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. 

The Seven Sisters meet the evening star, Mars continues its getaway, and unpacking the Moon illusion.