Spirit of Mars

NASA's Dawn mission will be the first to explore a dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. This video details the spacecraft's approach and orbit insertion.

The Psyche spacecraft includes many unavoidable magnetic field sources, which must be accounted for to measure the magnetic field signature of the Psyche metal-rich asteroid.

On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animati...

NASA’s Psyche team will measure the asteroid’s magnetic field using a magnetometer. This instrument is composed of two identical high-sensitivity magnetic field sensors located at the middle and ou...

This movie shows what it was like for NASA's Stardust spacecraft to fly by comet Tempel 1.

This animation, made using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the topography of Occator crater on Ceres.

NASA’s Dawn: Highlighting Bright Areas of Ceres

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

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

Learn more about the best-known black hole systems in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. 

The geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2020.

This video shows the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors during their long string of tests, from individual segments to the final tests of the assembled mirror. 

Cassini mission planners created this animation to showcase Cassini's final 22 orbits - the mission's Grand Finale.

The 2023 phases of the Moon at hourly intervals.

​Venus and Jupiter part ways following their March 1 rendezvous, while Ceres reaches opposition, and is worth hunting for using binoculars.

This graphic shows in a series of three images how Saturn's rings, after they became tilted relative to Saturn's equatorial plane, would have transformed into a corrugated ring.

Take a Tour of Asteroid Bennu

Look for the charioteer constellation, Auriga, along with two easy-to-locate star clusters, M41 and M47. And watch as Jupiter and Venus get close.

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

What's Up for May? This month, a rocky planet round-up, and a super blood Moon eclipse!

One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

October 2021 skywatching highlights: Find the Moon with Venus and Arcturus after sunset, and Regulus and Mercury before sunrise. And get to know Vega and Deneb, two of the brightest stars in the No...

When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon's shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA data sets, visualizer Ernie Wright has created a new...

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

March 2022 skywatching highlights: Saturn with Venus and Mars in the a.m., the Hyades star cluster, and stars with known exoplanets that you can find without a telescope.