Odyssey Over? Precarious Fuel Supply of NASA’s Oldest Mars Orbiter
Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task. Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter…
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.
Volcanic Activity on Venus – Earth’s Evil Twin – Revealed in NASA’s Magellan Data
In a first, scientists have seen direct evidence of active volcanism on Earth’s twin, setting the stage for the agency’s VERITAS mission to investigate. Direct…
JPL and the Space Age: The Pathfinders (NASA Documentary) [Video]
It started with JPL agreeing to land something on Mars — cheaply — and do it in a radically different way. This is how the…
NASA Space Mission Reveals Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Countries Around the World
A pilot project has estimated emissions and removals of carbon dioxide in individual nations using satellite measurements. A NASA Earth-observing satellite has helped researchers track…
NASA Pi Day Challenge: Celebrate the Mathematical Marvel With Stellar Math Problems
Pi Day is a day for people to celebrate and appreciate the importance of pi in our lives, and is often marked by various events…
Strange Circular Sand Dunes Discovered on Mars by NASA Spacecraft
Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. In this example, the dunes are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual. They are…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Views First Dazzling “Sun Rays” on Mars
The veteran Martian rover captured a dazzling sunset at the start of a new cloud-imaging campaign. Although Martian sunsets are uniquely moody, NASA’s Curiosity rover…
NASA’s PEACOQ Detector Could Transform How Quantum Computers Exchange Huge Quantities of Data
NASA’s PEACOQ Quantum Detector Achieves World-Leading Milestone A new JPL- and Caltech-developed detector could transform how quantum computers, located thousands of miles apart, exchange huge…
Don’t Miss Skywatching: Dwarf Planet Ceres at Its Brightest
What are some skywatching highlights in March 2023? Following their close approach in the sky on March 1, Venus and Jupiter go their separate ways….
A World in a Test Tube: Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists Study Its Origins
A specialized laboratory at JPL, designed to eliminate the chemical influence of modern organisms, allows scientists to investigate the chemistry that may have given rise…
Bizarre Geologic Activity on Venus: “Squishy” Outer Shell May Be Resurfacing the Planet
The research uses archival NASA data to show that Venus may be losing heat from geologic activity in regions called coronae, possibly like early tectonic…
JPL and the Space Age: To the Rescue (NASA Documentary)
Hubble in 1990 meant trouble. The highly touted space telescope was designed to escape Earth’s blurry atmosphere to capture unparalleled visual images of the universe….
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Reveals Hidden Light Shows on the Sun
Some of the hottest spots in the Sun’s atmosphere appear in the NuSTAR telescope’s X-ray view. Even on a sunny day, human eyes can’t see…
NASA’s Planetary Radar Captures Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid As It Flew Past Earth
One of the most elongated asteroids ever imaged by planetary radar was closely tracked by NASA’s Deep Space Network. An oblong asteroid, more than three…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Enters Third Year in Search for Signs of Life at Jezero Crater
After completing the first sample depot on another world, the rover continues its hunt for Mars rocks worthy of study on Earth. NASA’s Perseverance rover…
JPL and the Space Age: The Footsteps of Voyager (NASA Documentary)
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would be among the first to demonstrate that NASA’s new space shuttle could be used to conduct science experiments about our…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Shows Off Collection of Martian Samples in Stunning Panorama
NASA’s Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth…
JPL and the Space Age: The Stuff of Dreams (NASA Documentary)
In 1977 the greatest adventure in space exploration began with the launch of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft – two robotic explorers designed…
