17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... Association in Houston. As principal investigator, she would lead the proposed Trident mission, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would manage it. "I've always loved the Voyager 2 images and their tantalising glimpses...
29 June 2020
Black hole collision may have exploded with light
..."This detection is extremely exciting," said Daniel Stern, co-author of the new study and an astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in. "There's a lot we can learn about these two merging black holes and the environment they were in ...
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...
