Artist’s concept of the Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) CubeSat project. The dual INSPIRE CubeSats, the world’s first CubeSats to launched beyond Earth orbit, will demonstrate functionality, communication, navigation ... More »
The left Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took this image of Curiosity’s sample-processing and delivery tool just after the tool delivered a portion of powdered rock into the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. This Collection... More »
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a... More »
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE (Artist impression ) Image credit: ESA/AOES NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moon... More »
Ninth-grade, high-school students from Peoria, AZ analyze images of Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU A NASA project that allows students to use a camera on a spacecraft orbiting Mars for research has received a new education prize from the journal Scie... More »
First Curiosity Drilling Sample in the Scoop This image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS JPL’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it ha... More »
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star like our sun, approximately 210 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Kepler mission scientists... More »
This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. ES... More »
Jean-Lou Chameau, the eighth president of the California Institute of Technology, announced his intent to step down from the position in a letter to the Caltech community today. Chameau plans to leave later this year. “President Chameau has served Caltech with... More »
This artist’s impression by the European Space Agency shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft exploring the magnetic environment of Saturn. Image credit: ESA During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA’s Ca... More »
This collage of 72 individual radar-generated images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was created using data from NASA’s 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 201... More »
PASADENA — NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia’s Urals region this morning. Scientists have determined the Russia meteor is not related to aster... More »
