Don’t Miss: Geminid Meteor Shower and Asteroid Vesta
What are some skywatching highlights in December 2023? Clear skies will make for ideal viewing of the Geminid meteor shower, and grab your binoculars to…
JPL News
Read the latest space mission news and science developments related to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL is a federally-funded research and development center managed by Caltech for NASA. Missions include the Mars 20202 Mission with its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, Insight, Curiosity, Juno, NEOWISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and many more.
“First Light” for NASA’s Psyche Mission: Initial Images and a Solar Surprise
The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on October 13. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s…
NASA’s SunRISE Mission: Six Mini-Satellites Set To Illuminate Solar Mysteries
The satellites are part of the agency’s SunRISE mission, which will study the physics behind explosions that the Sun generates. Most NASA missions feature one…
Navigating NASA’s Waves: Google’s Voyage Through Earth’s Water Cycle
Google’s “A Passage of Water” Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life This immersive experience leverages satellite data to illustrate how climate change is impacting Earth’s…
Astronaut’s Eye View: Breathtaking Mars Horizon Captured by NASA’s Odyssey Orbiter
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has provided new panoramic images of Mars and its moon Phobos, offering fresh insights into the Martian landscape and atmosphere. The…
Historic First: NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs
Engineers will go beyond the ends of the Earth to find more performance for future Mars helicopters. For the first time in history, two planets…
EMIT: NASA’s Unexpected Hero in the Climate Crisis
Since launching 16 months ago, the EMIT imaging spectrometer aboard the International Space Station has shown an ability to detect more than just surface minerals….
NISAR’s Odyssey: Pioneering Earth-Observing Satellite Clears Crucial Test
During three weeks in a thermal vacuum chamber in Bengaluru, India, the joint NASA-ISRO satellite demonstrated its hardiness in a harsh, space-like environment. NISAR, the…
Expanding Horizons: NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Pioneers Quantum Chemistry in Space
The remotely operated facility aboard the International Space Station has created another tool that researchers can use to probe the fundamental nature of the world…
Cosmic Vanishing Acts: NASA Unraveling the Mystery of Shrinking Exoplanets
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new…
Sun’s Curtain Call: Mars Missions Go Rogue During Solar Conjunction
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet….
10 Million Miles Away: NASA Achieves Historic Data Exchange With Deep Space Optical Communications Experiment
DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for…
Mapping the Cosmos: NASA’s Latest Space Telescope To Survey 450 Million Galaxies
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx…
Fly Your Name to Jupiter’s Moon: Join NASA’s Europa Odyssey
Six weeks remain for you to add your name to a microchip that will ride aboard the spacecraft as it explores Jupiter’s moon Europa. It’s…
Rising Tides and Troubled Waters: NASA Forecasts El Niño-Driven Flood Fury This Winter
Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of the Americas tends to be uncommon outside of El Niño years, but…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Discovers Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate the Planet in Cylindrical Layers
The finding offers deeper insights into the long-debated internal structure of the gas giant. Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds…
Historic Martian Milestone: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars
The Curiosity mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is staying strong, despite the wear and tear from…
From Martian Oxygen to Sonic Thumps: NASA’s Stellar TIME Inventions of 2023
MOXIE, the oxygen-generating experiment aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, is among the technologies honored by the magazine. As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its…