Planetary Science Mission Events Handout

During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon's north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane.

JPL has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its coverage of the Cassini mission's Grand Finale at Saturn.

How do we reach deep space destinations where astronauts can’t yet travel? We send space robots! A discussion of the past & future of robotic planetary exploration will be broadcast live on Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET, 0200 UTC)

As the skies above Opportunity continue to clear, engineers at JPL are increasing the frequency of commands asking the solar-powered rover to communicate with Earth.

Is there water deep in Jupiter's atmosphere, and if so, how much?

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter.