Science & Medicine
NASA just beamed Missy Elliott’s hip hop classic “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus ahead of two uncrewed missions to the planet of love.
July 20, 2024
Business
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spent July 4 aboard the International Space Station as NASA and Boeing officials try to figure out what’s wrong with Starliner’s thrusters.
July 5, 2024
Climate & Environment
While there are already multiple satellites monitoring greenhouse gases from space, Carbon-I’s resolution would be unprecedented.
July 2, 2024
Updates
NASA has awarded $3.9 million to 13 teams at under-resourced academic institutions across the country, to support collaborative projects with NASA that offer students mentorship and career development in science, technology, engineering and math.
May 1, 2024
The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.
April 23, 2024
California
A piece of space debris that crashed into a home in Naples, Florida, last month was a piece of the International Space Station, NASA said.
April 16, 2024
NASA’s administrator says the agency is committed to the mission to bring samples of Mars back to Earth -- but in less time and for less money. How it will pull that off remains to be seen.
April 15, 2024
Could JPL’s ambitious Mars Sample Return mission use the long-troubled, massively over budget, but ultimately successful James Webb Space Telescope as a guide?
March 25, 2024
Steve Barajas is a mechanical engineer on NASA-JPL’s Europa Clipper 2024, the mission looking for an ocean beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Feb. 26, 2024
With a final 2024 budget for NASA in place, the space agency has directed JPL not to cut any more staff working on the Mars Sample Return mission.
March 6, 2024