Mars Yacht Club

This video shows the first test drive of the next Mars Rover, Curiosity, in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on July 23, 2010.

This video shows engineers and technicians carefully attaching the 'head' of the Mars Curiosity rover to its 'body' in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

The World Cup may be over, but there are soccer balls still bouncing in space. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered soccer-ball-shaped molecules, known as 'buckyballs.'

This animation illustrates that buckyballs -- discovered in space by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- closely resemble old fashioned, black-and-white soccer balls, only on much smaller scales.

This artist's animation illustrates vibrating buckyballs -- spherical molecules of carbon discovered in space for the first time by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

This movie features a simulation showing the changes to a portion of Saturn's F ring as the shepherding moon Prometheus swings by it.

This animation shows the progress of the WISE all-sky survey over time.

A scientist goes to California's Death Valley to unravel the mysteries of a Titan lake.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes us on a guided tour of this mysterious lake on Titan.

NASA's next rover to Mars, under construction at JPL, turns its new set of wheels.

This video clip shows a half dozen engineers gathered around the Curiosity rover as they get it ready to spin its wheels for the first time.

This month look for dark interstellar clouds blocking patches of Milky Way stars.

This month you can view a planetary necklace spanning the sky from dusk to dawn.

NEOWISE principal investigator Amy Mainzer describes the ongoing tally of space rocks and comets amassed by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

NEOWISE principal investigator Amy Mainzer describes the ongoing tally of space rocks and comets amassed by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

The earliest star catalogs are over six thousand years old, but the stories are even older.

Students get answers to questions about how planets form, how gravity works and what keeps the sun shining.