10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... data and imaging from Dawn to model the region surrounding Occator crater, Raymond, who is based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, found that there is evidence to support an extensive brine reservoir that could stretch around the dwarf planet...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... with observations. To help clarify what the situation on GJ 1132 b was, a team headed by Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, decided to point the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope at the exoplanet instead. To the team’s surprise, observations...
19 April 2021
Success for NASA as Ingenuity makes the first ever powered, controlled flight on Mars
... beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet," said MiMi Aung, project manager for Ingenuity at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Ingenuity’s initial flight demonstration, which lasted less than a minute, was autonomous – piloted...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... other planets too. With that in mind, a team of researchers headed by Jesse Tarnas, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, started analysing martian meteorites see if the ingredients for radiolysis-driven habitats could exist...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... to us. Designed in collaboration with the Breakthrough Initiatives in California, Saber Astronautics in Australia and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, TOLIMAN will make extremely fine measurements of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun by deploying...
21 July 2016
International Astronautical Congress to Present 2016 Awards in Mexico
... IAF World Space Award, to Dr. Yuri Koptev of ROSCOSMOS The Allan D. Emil Memorial Award, to Dr. Charles Elachi of Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CIT The Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal, to Ms. Bénédicte Escudier of ISAE-SUPAERO The IAF Hall of Fame...
