Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form.…
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a world-renowned research and development center managed by NASA and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Based in Pasadena, California, JPL designs, builds, and operates robotic spacecraft that explore the solar system and beyond. It has led many of NASA’s most groundbreaking missions, including the Mars rovers (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance), Voyager, Cassini, and the Europa Clipper. JPL’s scientists and engineers also conduct cutting-edge research in astrophysics, planetary science, and Earth observation, developing technologies for deep-space navigation, robotics, and autonomous systems. As a hub of innovation, JPL continues to push the boundaries of exploration and expand humanity’s reach across the cosmos.
One of four concepts being considered for a Discovery Program mission, Trident would investigate one…
The Red Planet’s surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be…
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us.…
This new portrait of the Red Planet’s neighbors was taken during a time when there’s…
New International Ocean Satellite Completes Testing A team of engineers in the U.S. and Europe…
Using an online tool to label Martian terrain types, you can train an artificial intelligence…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Takes One Giant Leap for Quantum Science A new study describes…
Taken with the infrared camera on NASA’s Odyssey orbiter, the images reveal temperature variations aboard…
Continuous monitoring of glaciers and ice caps has provided unprecedented insights to global ice loss…
About the size of a briefcase, the CubeSat was built to test new technologies but…
A host of international companies will be evaluated next for the free license granted by…
An instrument called SHERLOC will, with the help of its partner WATSON, hunt for signs…
The Demo-2 flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with Behnken and Douglas Hurley marks the first…
The agency’s new Mars rover is put through a series of tests in vacuum chambers,…
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building the Coronagraph Instrument for the…
These are the people who built NASA’s next Mars rover and who will guide it…
Using a combination of satellite sensors, scientists recently found that Denman Glacier has been retreating…