08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... was achieved with experimental technology that cost a fraction of what most space missions do: $18.5 million provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which built the CubeSats. WALL-E was last heard from on Dec. 29; EVE...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
..., and space is no different.” Jah recounted his professional experiences at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the European Space Agency and the US Air Force Research Laboratory on Maui, where he found himself astonished by the vast number of non...
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
... that turned into rock long ago," said Bethany Ehlmann of the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, California. How do researchers know that these are dunes and not windblown ripples of sand...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... divert to safe ground nearby," said Allen Chen, Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "With this capability, we can now consider landing areas with unsafe zones that previously...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
... potential biosignatures on Europa’s surface. Seeking to find the best places to look is a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, led by Tom Nordheim, who have calculated the global bombardment pattern of energetic electrons hitting...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea. After its initial detection, NASA’s Scout system, located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, automatically flagged the object as possibly originating from a far-flung location. Since then studies...
