Voyage of Discovery

Go, Atlas. Go, Centaur. Go, InSight! NASA's InSight mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mars on May 5, 2018—the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. 

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 12, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory takes a series of images every 45 seconds in a very narrow range of wavelengths in visible light of the solar photospher...

After a 15-year wait, equinox arrived at Saturn and Cassini was there to witness the spectacle of light and shadow.

Have you ever seen a meteorite streaking across the sky? If so, you may very well have seen part of the asteroid, Vesta!

Hear about what we know about Titan topics that were investigated early in Cassini’s mission. Learn what questions have baffled and perplexed Cassini scientists for a long while (cough cough cryovo...

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

Since the 1960’s, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the Moon’s poles. 

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

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

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

Io in Eclipse

This short animation created by Cassini's mission planning team shows how a Titan flyby will be used to move the spacecraft's course from orbiting Cassini's outer ring (F ring) to an orbit that tak...

What can you see in the February sky? Stars and planets with distinct red and blue colors, like Mars and Sirius.

Soar over the giant asteroid Vesta in 3-D. Put on your 3-D glasses for this ride over asteroid Vesta.

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 ...

Spacecraft at JPL

Hidden details of our home galaxy — the Milky Way — are revealed in different wavelengths. 

NASA's Cassini scientists waited years for the right conditions to produce the first movie that shows lightning on another planet - Saturn.

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

Here is a rover's eye view of driving, scooping and drilling during Curiosity's first year on Mars, August 2012 through July 2013.

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

The small moon Mimas passes in front of the larger moon Rhea, which is partly obscured by Saturn's rings, in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2019, at hourly intervals. The imagery is based on actual dat...