21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... the ocean surface," said Pablo Sobron, a SETI Institute physicist, who along with Laurie Barge at NASA JPL, received a NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR) grant to study underwater hydrothermal systems...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... orbiting the Sun at that distance," said Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL. "The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
.... Like everyone else working on NASA’s next robotic mission to Mars, and anxiously awaiting some good news at JPL, Tice won’t know whether the landing succeeded for several minutes after it all goes down, so to speak...
13 May 2020
Debris from China's rocket may have hit African villages
... for Astrophysics, who had been tracking the object for two days. According to tweets by McDowell, Hollywood, JPL and Colorado Springs were all under the reentry path of the rocket. “I’ve never seen a major reentry...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
..., but yet relevantly weird, because of the science we can do there," said Karl Mitchell, Trident project scientist at JPL. "We know the surface has all these features we've never seen before, which motivates us to want to know 'How...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... conclusion,” said Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California where the rover was built. When is the launch of Perseverance? NASA plans to launch Perseverance in a month...
