Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Set to launch within a few months, NISAR will use a technique called synthetic aperture radar to produce incredibly detailed maps of surface change on our planet.
Posted January 21, 2025
Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS)
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Ames Research Center
Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Glenn Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Materials Science
Science & Research
Technology
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Posted January 17, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Science Mission Directorate
Media accreditation is open for the launch of two NASA missions that will explore the mysteries of our universe and Sun. The agency is targeting late February to launch its SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory, a space telescope that will create a 3D map of […]
Posted January 13, 2025
NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Universe
An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden to unhidden behemoths. Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes — those up to billions of times heavier than the Sun. The new survey is […]
Posted January 13, 2025
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concepts to transform future missions for the benefit of all. Chosen from companies and institutions across the United States, the 2025 Phase I awardees represent a wide range of aerospace concepts.
Posted January 10, 2025
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Seasat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
SIR-C/X-SAR (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar)
A Q&A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet’s ever-changing surface.
Posted January 6, 2025
Deep Space Network
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Deep Space Station 23’s 133-ton reflector dish was recently installed, marking a key step in strengthening NASA’s Deep Space Network. NASA’s Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas, allows agency missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from spacecraft venturing to the Moon and beyond. NASA is adding a new […]
Posted December 21, 2024
Dawn
Asteroids
Ceres
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vesta
Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space. Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year battering by meteoroids and other space debris.
Posted December 20, 2024
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere goes through an active — even explosive — spring thaw. While New Year’s Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game: The Red Planet completed a trip around the Sun on Nov. 12, 2024, prompting a few researchers […]
Posted December 20, 2024
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