Due to extreme cold and little sunlight near the north and south poles, scientists believe…
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in Pasadena, California. Established in the 1930s, initially under the sponsorship of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), JPL is now managed by Caltech under a contractual agreement with NASA. Renowned for its pioneering work in robotic space exploration, JPL is responsible for the development and operation of numerous spacecraft and Mars rovers, including the Voyager probes, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the Perseverance rover. The laboratory’s missions have explored all of the planets in our solar system, as well as asteroids, comets, and the outer reaches of the cosmos. JPL also conducts Earth-orbiting missions, studies Earth’s climate, develops technologies for spacecraft, and collaborates internationally on various space missions.
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch.…
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA’s…
The recent NASA satellite image shows that La Niña is peaking in intensity, increasing the…
In the past, astronomers had no evidence that there were planets orbiting other stars. Now,…
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the three smallest exoplanets ever detected. All of them are…
According to a recently completed statistical study by an international team of astronomers, our galaxy…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light…
A European Space Agency-led mission in combination with the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer…
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, returned…
On January 11, 2012, NASA is planning to conduct the biggest trajectory maneuver for the…