Jet Propulsion Laboratory

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stars
The Universe
Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock. Every living organism on Earth needs water to survive, so scientists searching for life outside our solar system, are often guided by the phrase “follow the water.” Scheduled to launch […]
Posted February 13, 2025
NASA Centers & Facilities
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Langley Research Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Spinoffs
Stennis Space Center
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication, which highlights the successful transfer of agency technology to the commercial sector, is now available online. For nearly 25 years, NASA has supported crew working in low Earth orbit to learn about the space environment and perform research to advance deep space exploration.
Posted February 12, 2025
CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technology Demonstration
A trio of suitcase-size rovers and their base station have been carefully wrapped up and shipped off to join the lander that will deliver them to the Moon’s surface. Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
Posted February 11, 2025
Curiosity (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
While the Martian clouds may look like the kind seen in Earth’s skies, they include frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice. Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover using its Mastcam — its main set of “eyes.” Taken over 16 minutes on Jan. 17 […]
Posted February 11, 2025
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The elevation changes may seem small — amounting to fractions of inches per year — but they can increase or decrease local flood risk, wave exposure, and saltwater intrusion. Tracking and predicting sea level rise involves more than measuring the height of our oceans: Land along coastlines also inches up and down in elevation. Using […]
Posted February 10, 2025
Euclid
Astrophysics
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Universe
Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, has made a surprising discovery in our cosmic backyard: a phenomenon called an Einstein ring. An Einstein ring is light from a distant galaxy bending to form a ring that appears aligned with a foreground object. The name honors Albert Einstein, whose general theory of […]
Posted February 10, 2025
Airborne Science
Armstrong Flight Research Center
B200
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA and its partners recently tested an aircraft guidance system that could help planes maintain a precise course even while flying at high speeds up to 500 mph. The instrument is Soxnav, the culmination of more than 30 years of development of aircraft navigation systems. NASA’s G-IV aircraft flew its first mission to test this […]
Posted February 7, 2025
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Missions
With help from AI, scientists discovered a fresh crater made by an impact that shook material as deep as the Red Planet’s mantle. Meteoroids striking Mars produce seismic signals that can reach deeper into the planet than previously known. That’s the finding of a pair of new papers comparing marsquake data collected by NASA’s InSight […]
Posted February 3, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stars
The Universe
Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the universe. Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the cosmos like none before.
Posted January 31, 2025
Juno
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
The Solar System
Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have discovered a volcanic hot spot in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io. The hot spot is not only larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but […]
Posted January 28, 2025
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