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To honor the day’s 50th anniversary, NASA’s JPL has unveiled posters in which our home planet is the star. When Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders…
To honor the day’s 50th anniversary, NASA’s JPL has unveiled posters in which our home planet is the star. When Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders…
The Mars mission has learned to meet new challenges while working remotely. For people who are able to work remotely during this time of social…
A new JPL-led challenge is seeking ideas for scientific instruments that could fit inside a tiny payload no bigger than a bar of soap. Future…
The team also fueled the rover’s sky crane to get ready for this summer’s history-making launch. With the launch period of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance…
Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other stars….
New mapping of the giant planet’s upper atmosphere reveals likely reason why it’s so hot. The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants —…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at Jupiter’s tumultuous northern regions during the spacecraft’s close approach to the planet on February 17, 2020. Some notable…
An array of six spacecraft, each about the size of a toaster oven, will help us understand our nearest star and better protect astronauts traveling…
After the rover was shipped from JPL to Kennedy Space Center, the team is getting closer to finalizing the spacecraft for launch later this summer….
The shape of the ground beneath Denman Glacier, which is melting from the bottom up, makes it particularly vulnerable to the intrusion of seawater. Denman…
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on May 20, 2020.] The NASA mission…
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
As part of NASA’s ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ campaign, they’ve been stenciled onto three microchips along with essays from NASA’s ‘Name the Rover’ contest….
UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feet. East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly…
Along with capturing an image before its steepest ascent ever, the robotic explorer filmed its “selfie stick,” or robotic arm, in action. NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
From lasers to rovers, the technology NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory develops for space often has unanticipated uses much closer to home. As NASA pushes the…
GRACE, GRACE-FO Satellite Data Track Ice Loss at the Poles Greenland and Antarctica are melting — but how quickly and which areas are most affected?…
The sample handling system will be collecting and storing Martian rock and soil. Its installation marks another milestone in the march toward the July launch…