Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)
Astrophysics
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Magnetars
Neutron Stars
The Milky Way
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
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
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
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
Europa Clipper
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
The science performed by the complex suite of instruments recently added to the spacecraft will reveal whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions that could support life.
Posted January 30, 2024
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Waves
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)
Stellar-mass Black Holes
Supermassive Black Holes
The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction of flight hardware. On Jan. 25, ESA (European Space Agency), announced the formal adoption of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, to its mission lineup, with launch slated for the mid-2030s.
Posted January 25, 2024
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
STEM Engagement at NASA
The annual competition aims to help students expand their ocean-related knowledge outside the classroom and to become environmental stewards. University High School of Irvine, California, emerged victorious on Jan. 20 at the Los Angeles regional Ocean Sciences Bowl tournament, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has hosted annually since 2000.
Posted January 22, 2024
Mars Exploration Rovers (MER)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Opportunity (Rover)
Spirit (Rover)
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of Mars, kicking off a new era of interplanetary robotic exploration. They arrived in dramatic […]
Posted January 17, 2024
Ice & Glaciers
Cryosphere
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A new, comprehensive analysis of satellite data finds that majority of glaciers on the landmass have retreated significantly. The Greenland Ice Sheet has shed about one-fifth more ice mass in the past four decades than previously estimated, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reported in a new paper.
Posted January 17, 2024
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Cryosphere
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sea Ice
NISAR will study changes to ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air and ocean. NISAR, the soon-to-launch radar satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will measure some key Earth vital signs, from the health of wetlands to ground deformation by volcanoes to the […]
Posted January 10, 2024
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