01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
...-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June. Media were on hand at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, on March 31 to witness one of the final tests that a LDSD test vehicle will...
14 August 2015
Fun in the sun with Rosetta: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at perihelion
... closest approach to the sun have just been published by the European Space Agency. Amazing things – including jets and other outburst events – happen to comets at perihelion (the point in their orbit at which they are closest...
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...
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...
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 ...
13 July 2016
Reaction Engines sign new deal with ESA while UK Space Agency announces new facility
... engines, SABRE uses oxygen already present in the atmosphere in the combustion process. This is more akin to how jet engines work and an aircraft powered with a SABRE engine would be able to provide thrust from a standstill position...
