Jet Propulsion Laboratory

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)

Asteroids

Modeling

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact

After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk. When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) deliberately smashed into a 560-foot-wide (170-meter-wide) asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022, it made its mark in more ways than one.

Posted March 19, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Student-Built Robots Clash at Competition Supported by NASA-JPL

Hand-crafted robots, constructed over the past two months by 44 high school teams, duked it out at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition. Student-made contraptions of a metal and a little magic battled each other in front of cheering and dancing high schoolers at the annual Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition over the […]

Posted March 18, 2024

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Leslie Livesay Named Deputy Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The first woman to serve as JPL’s deputy director, Livesay serves under Laurie Leshin, the first woman to lead the lab. Leslie Livesay begins her tenure as deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, March 18. She succeeds Larry D. James, who served as deputy director since September 2013. During a career spanning […]

Posted March 18, 2024

Europa Clipper

Europa

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jupiter Moons

The Solar System

NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter’s Moon Europa

When it launches in October, the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than 2.6 million names submitted by the public.

Posted March 8, 2024

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

Earth

Extreme Weather Events

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Oceans

Water on Earth

SWOT Satellite Catches Coastal Flooding During California Storms

Operated by NASA and the French space agency, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean. A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state. At one […]

Posted March 5, 2024

Asteroids

Deep Space Network

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA)

Space Communications & Navigation Program

NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Slowly Spinning Asteroid

During the close approach of 2008 OS7 with Earth on Feb. 2, the agency’s Deep Space Network planetary radar gathered the first detailed images of the stadium-size asteroid. On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 ½ times the distance […]

Posted February 26, 2024

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Magnetars

Neutron Stars

The Milky Way

NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals

Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as it released a bright, brief burst of radio waves. What’s causing mysterious bursts of radio waves from deep space? Astronomers may be a step closer to providing one answer to that question. Two NASA X-ray […]

Posted February 14, 2024

Perseverance (Rover)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars 2020

Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover

Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras. Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument remains partially open. In this position, the cover interferes with science data collection operations.

Posted February 13, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

University High School Wins Regional Science Bowl at NASA’s JPL

After months of preparation, more than 100 students competed at the fast-paced annual academic competition hosted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For the second year in a row, a team from Irvine’s University High School claimed victory at a regional competition of the National Science Bowl, hosted Saturday, Feb.

Posted February 5, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Astrobiology

Astrophysics

Exoplanet Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Studying Exoplanets

Technology

The Search for Life

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027. The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate new technologies that could vastly increase the number of planets outside our solar system […]

Posted January 31, 2024