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Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...
On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik jump into the headlines, and boy are there a lot of them! Welcome to the "Survivor: NASA" edition!
When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...
Cassini spacecraft data has been used to create the infrared views of Saturn's moon Enceladus. "Reddish areas indicate fresh ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with its Mars Sample Return program.
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...
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On Jan. 11, an airborne imaging spectrometer managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew over Los Angeles County to survey the damage from the historic fires. It captured images of charred ...
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
Started by graduate students from the California Institute of Technology in the late 1930s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was instrumental in the development of early rocket technology in ...
John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last week. Casani served a central role in many of NASA’s historic deep ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...