Meet NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Headed to the Ends of the Earth
Two new miniature NASA satellites will start crisscrossing Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, detecting heat lost to space. Their observations from the planet’s most…
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NASA Awards Inaugural Grants to Support Emerging Research Institutions
NASA has awarded $3.7 million to 11 teams to support new collaborations between the agency and United States institutions not historically part of the agency’s…
NASA’s New Experimental Antenna Tracks Deep Space Laser
An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space. This shows it’s…
JPL Workforce Update
JPL statement issued on Feb. 6, 2024: After exhausting all other measures to adjust to a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of…
University High School Wins Regional Science Bowl at NASA’s JPL
For the second year in a row, a team from Irvine’s University High School claimed victory at a regional competition of the National Science Bowl,…
NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test
The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate new technologies that could vastly increase the number of planets outside our solar…
Poised for Science: NASA’s Europa Clipper Instruments Are All Aboard
With less than nine months remaining in the countdown to launch, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission has passed a major milestone: Its science instruments have been…
NASA Space Tech Spinoffs Benefit Earth Medicine, Moon to Mars Tools
As NASA innovates for the benefit of all, what the agency develops for exploration has the potential to evolve into other technologies with broader use…
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the…
NASA System Predicts Impact of a Very Small Asteroid Over Germany
A small asteroid about 3 feet (1 meter) in size disintegrated harmlessly over Germany on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 1:32 a.m. local time (CET). At…