Martian North Polar Layered Bean Dip

August 2021 skywatching highlights: Find a dark location to enjoy the Perseid meteors on  August 11, check out Jupiter and Saturn all night long all month, and find yourself under a blue moon on Au...

This poster marks the 10th anniversary of NASA's Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta. The spacecraft orbited and explored Vesta from July 16, 2011, to Sept. 5, 2012. 

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...

In the 1970s four spacecraft began their one-way trips out of our Solar System. NASA chose to place plaques on Pioneer 10 and 11 and golden records on Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Continuing this le...

New eye-catching posters celebrate the five-year anniversary of Juno’s orbit insertion at Jupiter in a psychedelic style.

Sunsets in July come with an added bonus: a brilliant gem low in the western sky, calling to us to come and explore its many mysteries. This is Venus – our nearest planetary neighbor.

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...

Lucy will be the first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids – small bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.

This composite image made from seven frames shows the International Space Station in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second on June 25, 2021. The images were taken from ...

This image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the very steep outer scarp of north polar layered deposits on Mars. Every year there is a lot of slope activity in the springtime when s...

A partial solar eclipse is seen as the Sun rises behind the United States Capitol Building on June 10, 2021, as seen from Arlington, Virginia. The annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse was only c...

What are some skywatching highlights in June 2021? Catch Saturn and Jupiter in the morning, and the constellation Scorpius after dark! Plus skywatchers in the Northeast U.S., Eastern Canada, and No...

OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu in higher resolution than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on Dec. 3, 2018, the spacecraft has discovered boulders the size of buildings...

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. 

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...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed a fourth, more challenging flight on the Red Planet on April 30, 2021.

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

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.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed a second, more challenging flight on the Red Planet on April 22, 2021.

While the real OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is working to bring a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth, you can take your own pocket spacecraft for an adventure right here at home.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. 

In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

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...

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

Beginning April 2021, the window opens for the first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. It will be history’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.