Jet Propulsion Laboratory

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

International SWOT Satellite Spots Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami

Data from space shows water tilting up toward the north side of the Dickson Fjord as it sloshed from south to north and back every 90 seconds for nine days after a 2023 rockslide. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, a collaboration between NASA and France’s CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), […]

Posted November 1, 2024

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

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Search for Life

The Universe

Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever

The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Here’s what astronomers will do with all that color. NASA’s SPHEREx mission won’t be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be […]

Posted October 31, 2024

Perseverance (Rover)

Astrobiology

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars

Mars 2020

NASA’s Perseverance Captures ‘Googly Eye’ During Solar Eclipse

The tiny, potato-shaped moon Phobos, one of two Martian moons, cast a silhouette as it passed in front of the Sun, creating an eye in Mars’ sky. From its perch on the western wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently spied a “googly eye” peering down from space. The pupil in this celestial […]

Posted October 30, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Ames Research Center

Careers

Events

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What We Do

NASA Brings Drone and Space Rover to Air Show

Lee esta historia en Español aquí. In September, the three NASA centers in California came together to share aerospace innovations with thousands of guests at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego, California. Agency experts talked about the exciting work NASA does while exploring the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all. Under a […]

Posted October 30, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Ames Research Center

Careers

Events

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA en español

What We Do

La NASA lleva un dron y un rover espacial a un espectáculo aéreo

Read this story in English here. En septiembre, los tres centros de la NASA en California se reunieron para compartir innovaciones aeroespaciales con miles de asistentes en el Espectáculo Aéreo de Miramar, en San Diego, California.

Posted October 30, 2024

General

Ames Research Center

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

Europa Clipper

Game Changing Development Program

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Operations Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Technology Demonstration

Technology Demonstration Missions Program

NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named Wednesday among TIME’s Inventions of 2024.

Posted October 30, 2024

Earth

Carbon Cycle

Climate Change

Greenhouse Gases

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Helps Find Thawing Permafrost Adds to Near-Term Global Warming

Earth’s far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia. New research paints a picture of a landscape in change. A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth’s vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms.

Posted October 29, 2024

Perseverance (Rover)

Astrobiology

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars

Mars 2020

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope

On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency’s latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater’s western wall with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. […]

Posted October 28, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date.

Posted October 28, 2024

Climate Change

Earth

Earth Science

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Oceans

Sea Level Rise

NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands

Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team. This amount […]

Posted September 25, 2024