Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Tuesday, April 16, to monitor a transmission from the history-making helicopter. While the m... More »
Many of us would love the superpower to fly, and for good reason: Flight offers a crucial evolutionary advantage. Flying enables an animal to travel large distances quickly, in search of food and new habitats, while expending far less energy than walking. Thro... More »
Hoping to breathe new life into a long-planned but financially struggling effort to retrieve soil and rock samples from Mars and return them to Earth, NASA leaders are reaching out to the space-exploration community Tuesday for proposals that will lower the $1... More »
As National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepares to return to the Moon with its upcoming Artemis missions, researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena are proposing a new seismological technology that could revolutionize the way ... More »
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are running final tests and preparing the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft for the next leg of its journey: launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Europa Clipper, which will... More »
In an exciting development for space enthusiasts and the general public, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is offering a unique opportunity to get an up-close look at the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The event, scheduled for April 11 at 1:00 p.m. on YouTube, will... More »
On a dark-sky night, around 5,000 stars are visible to the naked eye, a tally that does not include the many galaxies, nebulae, and human-made objects that can be seen overhead. To understand what you are seeing when you look up in wonder means knowing not onl... More »
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has released its 10th year of infrared data – the latest in a unique long-duration (or “time-domain”) survey that captures how celestial objects change over long periods. Time-domain astronomy can help scientists see how distant variable... More »
New machine-learning-based research by a Caltech research associate and a JPL senior research scientist has been shown to more accurately forecast the South Asian monsoon rainfall 10 to 30 days in advance. This is a significant improvement on current state-of-... More »
In a remarkable development for cardiovascular medicine, a promising and innovative young researcher at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena has accomplished significant strides in developing a... More »
NASA JPL’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all from the Red Planet’s surface. Billions of years ago, Mars was much wetter and probably warmer than it is today... More »
Before joining the faculty this academic year as assistant professor of astronomy, Kareem El-Badry made headlines for debunking other researchers’ claims to have discovered black holes. A number of celestial phenomena that suggest the presence of a black hole—... More »
