June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...first spacecraft ever to cautiously approach Mercury was the NASA probe Mariner 10 and, ironically, if the mission...named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the time was visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the ...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... experiments to understand the effects of radiation on electronic devices. Its major space customers have included NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), for which Alpha Data has provided modified COTS design services for firmware, software and ...
24 November 2015
Could Earth be highlighting Hairy Dark Matter?
... years ago, may yet prove to be stranger than originally thought. In new research conducted by Gary Prézeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and published this week in the Astrophysical Journal, Prézeau suggests that a stream...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
...Cassini's legacy of discoveries in the Saturn system is profound," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "We won't get this close to Enceladus again with Cassini, but our travels have...
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...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
... in diameter. Shortly after confirmation of 2006 QV89, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced what everyone wanted to hear: the asteroid won’t be hitting Earth anytime in the next...
