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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft aims to skirt Saturn’s innermost ring
Fresh off its fifth passage through a gap between Saturn's atmosphere and rings, NASA's robotic Cassini spacecraft is looping toward a close brush with the planet's innermost ring next week, when the probe will again use its high-gain antenna as a shield against icy particles that may lie in its path.
Juno spacecraft makes another pass by Jupiter
Making its fifth science pass close to Jupiter's turbulent cloud tops, NASA's Juno spacecraft sailed by the solar system's king planet Friday to collect another treasure trove of data on the giant world's atmosphere, internal structure, and magnetic field.
Cassini downlinks view of Titan’s methane clouds on third loop inside rings
The Cassini spacecraft captured a captivating image of wispy methane clouds suspended above Titan's hydrocarbon lakes as the probe headed for its third shot through Saturn's ring gap Tuesday.
First aerial color photo of Mars rover’s “hole-in-one” landing site
NASA has released the first high-resolution aerial color image of the Opportunity rover's landing site on a sprawling Martian plain, where the airbag-cushioned robot fortuitously rolled into a Eagle Crater in January 2004, putting its scientific instruments face-to-face with a block of sedimentary rock that gave ground teams confirmation Mars was once a warmer, wetter, and habitable planet.
VideoNASA probe finds Saturn ring gap emptier than predicted
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped through a gap between Saturn and its rings for the second time Tuesday after data from the probe's first perilous passage through the unexplored region last week found it to contain fewer potentially hazardous dust particles than expected.
U.S. instrument team to fly camera on South Korean moon mission
A camera developed by scientists at Arizona State University will join four foreign-built instruments on South Korea's first lunar orbiter set for launch at the end of 2018, NASA announced Friday.
Cassini contacts Earth after flying inside Saturn’s rings
Ground controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed Thursday the Cassini spacecraft survived its first trip between Saturn and its rings, the closest any probe has ever come to the planet.
VideoGravitational wave testbed repurposed as comet dust detector
In the final months of Europe's LISA Pathfinder mission, scientists have found an unexpected use for the trailblazing testbed for a future gravitational wave observatory by tracking the tiny dings made by microscopic particles that strike the spacecraft in deep space, exploiting the impacts to learn about the population of dust grains cast off by comets and asteroids across the solar system.
Cassini sails by Saturn’s moon Titan for last time
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped by the moon Titan on Saturday, using the hazy world's gravity to slingshot the probe on a trailblazing trajectory to explore the region between Saturn's hydrogen-helium atmosphere and the planet's famous rings for the first time.
Saturn’s disk-shaped moon Atlas spotted by Cassini
One of Saturn's peculiar moons has received an up-close look from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which sent back the best-ever pictures of Atlas, an object shaped like a flying saucer orbiting just outside the planet's rings.