10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... degrees, or half a cycle from the old orbital estimates from 2009," said Ryan Park, the manager of JPL's Solar System Dynamics group, who delivered the new orbit back to the radar team. "But otherwise...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute Fortuitously, Enceladus is not the only ‘hot bed’ of activity in the Solar System...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
...) with the Galileo spacecraft after its pass through a plume erupting from Europa's surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Michigan
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California about the boulder-sized asteroid designated 2018 LA. But perhaps the most notable asteroid...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... orbits, outlining a well-defined, 20 km wide subsurface anomaly that is interpreted as a pond of liquid water. Image: ESA/NASA/JPL/ASI/Univ. Rome; R. Orosei et al 2018
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... enough to make it past this milestone,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “This is what we've all been waiting for. Now we’re looking forward to what we’ll be able to learn...
