Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA OUTSTANDING PUBLIC LEADERSHIP MEDAL Awarded for notable leadership accomplishments that have significantly influenced NASA’s mission. Sustained leadership and exceptionally high-impact leadership achievements demonstrate the individual’s effectiveness in advancing NASA’s goals and image in present and future terms.

Posted January 30, 2026

Perseverance (Rover)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars 2020

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars

The team for the six-wheeled scientist used a vision-capable AI to create a safe route over the Red Planet’s surface without the input of human route planners. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency’s Jet Propulsio

Posted January 30, 2026

NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)

Earth

Earth Science

Earth Science Division

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission Peers Through Clouds to See Mississippi River Delta

A new image from the NISAR mission shows off the satellite’s ability to reveal details of Earth’s surfaces. The science team also released new sample data. A U.S.-Indian Earth satellite’s ability to see through clouds, revealing insights and characteristics of our planet’s surface, is on display in a colorful, newly released image showing the Miss

Posted January 29, 2026

Artemis

Artemis 2

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Technology Demonstration

Networks Keeping NASA’s Artemis II Mission Connected

NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, video, and vital mission data must traverse thousands of miles, carried on signals from NASA’s communications systems.

Posted January 28, 2026

Juno

Europa

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA’s Juno Measures Thickness of Europa’s Ice Shell

Results from the solar-powered spacecraft provide a new measurement of the thickness of the ice shell encasing the Jovian moon’s ocean. Data from NASA’s Juno mission has provided new insights into the thickness and subsurface structure of the icy shell encasing Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Posted January 27, 2026

Ames Research Center

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Pioneers

CubeSats

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanet Transits

Exoplanets

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

Infrared Light

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Kepler / K2

SmallSats Program

Stars

Studying Exoplanets

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

The Universe

Visible / Optical Light

NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

Editor’s Note, Jan. 11, 2026: NASA’s Pandora and the NASA-sponsored BlackCAT and SPARCS missions lifted off at 8:44 a.m. EST (5:44 a.m. PST) Sunday, Jan. 11. A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along […]

Posted January 9, 2026

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

The Search for Life

The Universe

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other

Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are prevalent in the cosmos, and observing the entire sky this way enables scientists to answer big questions, including how a dramatic […]

Posted December 18, 2025

Perseverance (Rover)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars

Mars 2020

The Solar System

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Ready to Roll for Miles in Years Ahead

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed “Lac de Charmes,” where it will be searching for rocks to sample in the coming […]

Posted December 17, 2025

Titan

Astrobiology

Cassini

Deep Space Network

Dragonfly

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Saturn

Saturn Moons

NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: Titan’s interior is more likely composed of ice, with layers of slush and small pockets of warm water that form […]

Posted December 17, 2025

Sentinel-6B

Earth

Earth Science Division

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Science Mission Directorate

NASA, SpaceX Launch US-European Satellite to Monitor Earth’s Oceans

About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and atmospheric information to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial activities, such as shipping.

Posted November 17, 2025