Firsts First spacecraft to enter Jupiter's atmosphere Key Dates Oct. 18, 1989: Launch July 13, 1995: Probe was released from the Galileo spacecraft Dec. 7, 1995: Probe penetrated Jupiter's atmosphere ...

Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took 31 images in Gale Crater using its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to create this mosaic. The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 360-degree cylindrical ...

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 11:38 a.m. ET on May 13, 2025. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on ...

As instrument commissioning and calibration checks continue for NASA’s newly launched PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, its four spacecraft continue to deliver new ...

Some astronomers think there may be a large planet at the fringes of our solar system - a world they call Planet Nine. Join the hunt for new planets and planet-like objects called "brown dwarfs" near ...

NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10 for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...