Our Solar System

The next full Moon will be on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. The Moon will appear full from early Saturday morning through early Tuesday morning.

The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning.

The next full Moon will be Tuesday morning, November 8, 2022 at 6:02 AM EST.

Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky.

Scientists have pieced together the story of how dwarf planet Haumea became one of the most unusual objects in the solar system.

Here’s a quick run through some of the more intriguing impacts across our solar system.

The agency’s newly upgraded “Eyes on the Solar System” visualization tool includes a host of new features.

A new study finds the speed of sound is slower on Mars and that, mostly, a deep silence prevails.

The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on March 31, 2022, peaking at 2:35 p.m. EST.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop has arrived at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center.

The Webb team expects the telescope's optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was built to achieve.

Composed of multiple images, this enhanced-color mosaic of a hill in Jezero Crater was created using Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera system.

The team has successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases of mirror alignment.

One of the most exciting findings in planetary science in recent years is the discovery of interstellar objects passing through our solar system.

Several weeks after a dust storm on Mars, InSight's solar panels are producing almost as much power as they did before the storm.

A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why they eluded another mission 30 years ago.

Here are 10 impressively super, bowl-shaped venues adorning worlds in our solar system, including a couple where we've actually made…touchdowns!

NASA has selected two science missions to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun and its connection to Earth.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.

A new study calculates how dark matter’s gravity affects objects in our solar system, including spacecraft and distant comets.

NASA-funded ATLAS has reached become the first survey capable of searching the entire dark sky every 24 hours for near-Earth objects.

Dr. Laurie Leshin has been appointed as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California.

Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago.

In preparing for Flight 19, the Mars helicopter team found that unexpected Mars weather can result in a scenario familiar here on Earth: a delayed flight.

Europa Clipper will need to know its orientation while traveling from Earth to Jupiter and in orbit around Jupiter. To accomplish this, it will use the stars.