30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... and according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars, although we can't be sure because...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... single object. "This neutron star wears two different hats," said Walid Majid, astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "Sometimes it's a pulsar. Sometimes it's a magnetar. This object may tell us something about the...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... gap between the rings and Saturn would be like," said Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "I am delighted to report that Cassini shot through the gap just as we planned and has come...
15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
... this most melancholy of events, starting at 7 am EDT, NASA will be streaming live shots from inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission control as Cassini embarks on its final, final mission, leaving behind an enviable legacy of information that...
14 February 2018
Martian meteorite to be used as target practice
... called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will also be carried by the rover - now being built at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California - to serve as target practice for a high-precision laser on the rover's arm. Mars 2020's goal...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
...seen something repeatable in the methane story, so it offers us a handle in understanding it," said Chris Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of the second paper. "This is all possible because of Curiosity...
