News Articles for 2010

	December 29, 2010 Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to the solar system's biggest planet on Dec. 30, 2000. Read more

	December 23, 2010 Opportunity Studying a Football-Field Size Crater NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend a few weeks investigating a football-field-size crater informally named 'Santa Maria.' Read more

	December 22, 2010 Contract Marks New Generation for Deep Space Network NASA has taken the next step toward a new generation of Deep Space Network antennas. Read more

	December 22, 2010 NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will shoot a laser at rocks and patches of soil with enough power to generate a flash revealing each target's atomic ingredients. Read more

	December 22, 2010 Mars Movie: I'm Dreaming of a Blue Sunset A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. Read more

	December 21, 2010 Cassini Finishes Sleigh Ride by Icy Moons On the heels of a successful close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is returning images of Enceladus and the nearby moon Dione. Read more

	December 21, 2010 Season's Greetings: NASA Views the Change of Seasons Welcome the winter solstice today, Dec. 21 (summer solstice for our friends south of the equator) with a slideshow of NASA satellite images marking the change of seasons. Read more

	December 20, 2010 Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views of Rhea Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by Cassini show dramatic views of fractures and craters on the moon's surface. Read more

	December 20, 2010 Cassini Takes Close-Up of Enceladus Northern Hemisphere NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its close flyby of the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus today, Monday, Dec. 20. Read more

	December 16, 2010 A Galaxy for Everyone NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, celebrates its launch anniversary with a taste of four galaxy flavors. Read more

	December 16, 2010 Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major quake that rocked parts of the American Southwest and Mexico in April. Read more

	December 16, 2010 NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips for Mars Rover NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Read more

	December 15, 2010 American Geophysical Union Honors NASA's Bill Patzert Bill Patzert, an oceanographer and climatologist at JPL, has been honored by the American Geophysical Union for his contributions to improving public understanding of Earth science. Read more

	December 15, 2010 NASA's Odyssey Spacecraft Sets Exploration Record on Mars NASA's Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001, will break the record Wednesday for longest-serving spacecraft at the Red Planet. Read more

	December 14, 2010 Hot Plasma Explosions Inflate Saturn's Magnetic Field New Cassini findings show enormous clouds of hot plasma periodically bloom around Saturn and move like an unbalanced load of laundry on spin cycle. Read more

	December 14, 2010 Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano on Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Read more

	December 13, 2010 NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Read more

	December 10, 2010 Students Bounce to the Top at JPL Competition With rubber band contraptions, leaf blowers, balloons and other items, student teams used ping-pong lifting devices in JPL's annual Invention Challenge, held today, Dec. 10. Read more

	December 9, 2010 WISE Sees an Explosion of Infrared Light NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer has caught sight of an unusual display of infrared colors around a supernova remnant. Read more

	December 9, 2010 Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history. Read more

	December 8, 2010 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. Read more

	December 6, 2010 New JPL Workers Shed Training Wheels for Rocket Launch A group of early-career employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can now add “rocket launch” to their resumes. Read more

	December 6, 2010 So You Think You Can Solve a Cosmology Puzzle? Scientists challenge other scientists with a series of galaxy puzzles Read more

	December 2, 2010 Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes to the Sky The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has taken its first images of the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor. Read more

	December 1, 2010 Cassini Returns Images of Bright Jets at Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully dipped near the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 30. Read more

	December 1, 2010 NASA Aids in Characterizing Super-Earth Atmosphere A team of astronomers, including two NASA Sagan Fellows, has made the first characterizations of a super-Earth's atmosphere, by using a ground-based telescope. Read more

	December 1, 2010 Pits, Flows, Other Scenes in New Set of Mars Images Thousands of new Mars images from 340 observations by the highest resolution camera orbiting the Red Planet include scenes of rimless pits, mud volcanoes and other features. Read more

	November 30, 2010 Mars Rover Construction Webcam Tops Million Viewers More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October. Read more

	November 30, 2010 Spain Supplies Weather Station for Next Mars Rover As it explores a region of Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity will monitor temperatures, winds, humidity and other environmental variables using tools supplied by Spain. Read more

	November 29, 2010 Cassini Finds Warm Cracks on Enceladus New images and data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft give scientists a unique Saturn-lit view of active fissures through the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Read more

	November 29, 2010 Thin Air - Cassini Finds Ethereal Atmosphere at Rhea NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Read more

	November 24, 2010 Cassini Back to Normal, Ready for Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft resumed normal operations today, Nov. 24. All science instruments have been turned back on, the spacecraft is properly configured and Cassini is in good health. Read more

	November 24, 2010 Stripes Are Back in Season on Jupiter New NASA images support findings that one of Jupiter's stripes that "disappeared" last spring is now showing signs of a comeback. Read more

	November 24, 2010 Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting two massive islands of galaxies. Read more

	November 23, 2010 NASA's Savory Sea Salt Sensor to Get Cooked, Chilled A NASA instrument that will soon serve up a tasty cornucopia of new Earth climate data is set to get baked and chilled in a giant oven.' Read more

	November 23, 2010 Tuning an 'Ear' to the Music of Gravitational Waves A team of scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has brought the world one step closer to "hearing" gravitational waves. Read more

	November 23, 2010 NASA Study Finds Earth's Lakes are Warming In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. Read more

	November 22, 2010 NASA Funds High School Student Robotics Program NASA is providing up to $20 million over the next five years to support a national program to inspire students through the FIRST Robotics program. Read more

	November 22, 2010 Spitzer Sees Shrouded Burst of Stars Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much infrared light as an entire galaxy. Read more

	November 22, 2010 NASA Spacecraft Burns for Another Comet Flyby NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its rockets to adjust its flight path today, Nov. 22, to set itself up for a flyby of comet Tempel 1 next February. Read more

	November 19, 2010 Scientists Chosen to Help on Venus Climate Orbiter NASA has established a Venus Climate Orbiter Participating Scientist Program to complement scientific return of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)-led Venus Climate Orbiter, or "Akatsuki" mission. Read more

	November 18, 2010 NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week. Read more

	November 18, 2010 NASA Spacecraft Sees Cosmic Snow Storm During Comet Encounter The EPOXI mission's recent encounter with comet Hartley 2 provided the first images clear enough for scientists to link jets of dust and gas with specific surface features. Read more

	November 17, 2010 WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen in Starry Sea A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. Read more

	November 16, 2010 How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and 'Save the Dates' There are several major meteor showers to enjoy every year at various times, with some more active than others. Read more

	November 16, 2010 Camera on Curiosity's Arm will Magnify Clues in Rocks A camera installed this month on the robotic arm of NASA's next Mars rover will do close-up inspections for clues to Martian environments, but it can look far away, too. Read more

	November 11, 2010 Shedding 'Bent' Light on Dark Matter An astronomy team led by Dan Coe, formerly of JPL, has created one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Read more

	November 11, 2010 Saturn Then and Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn on Nov. 12, 1980, revealing mysteries that NASA's Cassini spacecraft is working to crack. Read more

	November 10, 2010 Cassini Sees Saturn on a Cosmic Dimmer Switch Saturn put out less energy over the years and emitted it in a lopsided fashion. Read more

	November 9, 2010 NASA Study Shows Role of Melt in Arctic Sea Ice Loss A NASA analysis of satellite data has quantified, for the first time, the amount of older and thicker "multiyear" sea ice lost from the Arctic Ocean due to melting. Read more

	November 9, 2010 Status Update: Cassini to Resume Nominal Operations Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., expect the Cassini spacecraft will resume normal operations on Nov. 24. Read more

	November 9, 2010 Cool Star is a Gem of a Find NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has eyed its first cool brown dwarf: a tiny, ultra-cold star floating all alone in space. Read more

	November 9, 2010 Sensor on Mars Rover to Measure Radiation Environment One of the experiments on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will measure the natural radiation environment to aid plans for future human missions. Read more

	November 5, 2010 Flight of the Comet This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. Read more

	November 4, 2010 Engineers Assessing Cassini Spacecraft Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working to understand what caused NASA's Cassini spacecraft to put itself into "safe mode," a precautionary standby mode. Read more

	November 4, 2010 NASA EPOXI Flyby Reveals New Insights Into Comet Features Scientists say initial images from today's flyby of comet Hartley 2 provide new information about the comet's volume and material spewing from its surface. Read more

	November 4, 2010 Herschel's Hidden Talent: Digging Up Magnified Galaxies It turns out the Herschel Space Observatory has a trick up its sleeve. The telescope has proven to be excellent at finding magnified, faraway galaxies. Read more

	November 4, 2010 NASA Mission Successfully Flies by Comet Hartley 2 NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is the fifth comet nucleus visited by a spacecraft. Read more

	November 4, 2010 Epoxi Flyby of Comet Hartley 2 Underway Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have relayed final instructions to their comet-bound spacecraft today, Nov. 3. Read more

	November 2, 2010 The Man Behind Comet Hartley 2 Malcolm Hartley has seen a whole lot of the universe over the last 40 years, but he'd never had a close-up view of a comet named after him. Read more

	November 2, 2010 NASA Spacecraft on Final Approach Toward Comet NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft steadily approaches its target, comet Hartley 2, as it completes its final flight-path adjustment. Read more

	November 2, 2010 Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations. Read more

	November 1, 2010 NASA's Comet Mission May Face Multiple Jets Nov. 4 Images from NASA's EPOXI mission shows jets emanating from comet Hartley 2. Read more

	November 1, 2010 Major Surgery Complete for Deep Space Network Antenna The seven-month upgrade to the historic "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has been completed. Read more

	November 1, 2010 Cassini Sees Saturn Rings Oscillate Like Mini-Galaxy Scientists believe they finally understand why one of the most dynamic regions in Saturn's rings has such an irregular and varying shape, thanks to images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	November 1, 2010 NASA to Host Live Events for November 4 Comet Encounter NASA will hold a series of news and educational events about the EPOXI mission's close encounter with comet Hartley 2, scheduled to occur at approximately 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) on Thursday, Nov. 4. Read more

	October 31, 2010 Silica on a Mars Volcano Tells of Wet and Cozy Past Mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Read more

	October 29, 2010 New Project Manager as Voyager Explores New Territory As NASA's two Voyager spacecraft hurtle towards the edge of our solar system, a new project manager will shepherd the spacecraft into this unexplored territory. Read more

	October 29, 2010 Study Links Fresh Mars Gullies to Carbon Dioxide Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter implicate that carbon-dioxide frost, rather than water, is causing fresh flows of sand on some of the planet's dune gullies. Read more

	October 28, 2010 Space Radar Provides a Taste of Comet Hartley 2 A massive space-radar dish in Puerto Rico is providing an appetizing glimpse at a cometary target for a Nov. 4 encounter by NASA's EPOXI mission. Read more

	October 28, 2010 NASA Survey Suggests Earth-Sized Planets are Common Nearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California. Read more

	October 28, 2010 NASA Work Helps Better Predict World's Smoggiest Days A research team led by JPL and Caltech has fully characterized a key chemical reaction that affects the formation of a harmful air pollutant in the world's urban areas. Read more

	October 28, 2010 NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently. Read more

	October 27, 2010 JPL-Mentored Student Robotics Team Meets The President An all-female student robotics team, led by JPL scientists and engineers, is recognized by President Obama for winning the prestigious FIRST Tech Challenge Inspire award. Read more

	October 27, 2010 NASA Spacecraft Preps for Comet Flyby NASA's EPOXI mission has successfully performed one of its final maneuvers as it prepares for a comet flyby on Nov. 4. Read more

	October 27, 2010 NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for Juno Mission Instruments will map Jupiter's magnetic field with great accuracy and observe its variations over time. Read more

	October 27, 2010 Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer Telescope Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. Read more

	October 26, 2010 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse of Distant Stars The Kepler spacecraft is measuring "starquakes" to learn more about the evolution of stars. Read more

	October 26, 2010 Countdown to Comet Flyby Down to Nine Days NASA's EPOXI mission continues to close in on its target, comet Hartley 2, at a rate of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) per second. Read more

	October 25, 2010 Five Things About NASA's EPOXI Mission Here are five quick facts about the EPOXI mission, scheduled to fly by comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. Read more

	October 21, 2010 New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft Scientists expected the unexpected during NASA's EPOXI mission flyby of comet Hartley 2. They just didn't expect the unexpected quite so unexpectedly. Read more

	October 21, 2010 Lunar Impact May Impact Lunar Science For Years To Come The JPL-built Diviner instrument had a front-row seat to the lunar impact of NASA's LCROSS spacecraft Read more

	October 21, 2010 Watch Construction of NASA's New Mars Rover Live on the Web A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover. Read more

	October 20, 2010 Spring Has Sprung ... On Titan Cassini has captured images of clouds in the equatorial region of Saturn's moon Titan, likely heralding the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere. Read more

	October 19, 2010 Prototype NASA Earth Camera Goes for Test Flight JPL has conducted the first test flight of a prototype instrument being developed for a future space mission to survey how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's changing climate. Read more

	October 19, 2010 The (Long) Weekend Warrior: Nine Moons, 62 Hours NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully glided near nine Saturnian moons, sending back a stream of raw images as mementos of its adrenaline-fueled expedition. Read more

	October 19, 2010 Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an Exoplanet Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. Read more

	October 19, 2010 The Comet Cometh: Hartley 2 Visible in Night Sky A comet that makes its closest approach to Earth this Wednesday, Oct. 20, will be scrutinized even more closely by a NASA spacecraft in a little over two weeks. Read more

	October 14, 2010 Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Gets New Project Manager The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself. Read more

	October 14, 2010 NASA Study of Haiti Quake Yields Surprising Results A new NASA, U.S. Geological Survey and university study finds this year's Haiti quake was caused by multiple faults and may not have released all the strain in the region. Read more

	October 13, 2010 The Many Infrared 'Personalities' of the Sculptor Galaxy The Sculptor galaxy is seen in a rainbow of infrared colors by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Read more

	October 13, 2010 Camera That Saved Hubble Leaves Nest for Good The historic space telescope camera leaves JPL, where it was developed and built, after a visit. The camera was the Hubble Space Telescope's most prolific instrument. Read more

	October 12, 2010 Giant Star Goes Supernova, Smothered by its Own Dust A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang. Read more

	October 11, 2010 Small Asteroid to Pass Within Earth-Moon System Tuesday A small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system. Read more

	October 8, 2010 Mobile Mars Lab Almost Ready for Curiosity Rover A suite of instruments to analyze samples of Martian rocks and soil for chemistry relevant to life is being readied in Maryland for NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity. Read more

	October 8, 2010 NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help from Hubble NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. Read more

	October 7, 2010 Cassini Catches Saturn Moons in Paintball Fight Scientists using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have learned that distinctive, colorful bands and splotches embellish the surfaces of Saturn's inner, mid-size moons. Read more

	October 6, 2010 NASA Loosens GRIP on Atlantic Hurricane Season NASA wrapped up one of its largest-ever hurricane research efforts last week after nearly two months of flights that broke new ground in the study of tropical cyclones. Read more

	October 6, 2010 Enceladus May Keep its Oceans Liquid by Wobbling Cassini helps decode the puzzling heat patterns of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. Read more

	October 6, 2010 NASA Partnership Sends Earth Science Data to Africa A unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe has sent a massive amount of free NASA Earth science satellite data to South African researchers. Read more

	October 5, 2010 WISE Captures Key Images of Comet Mission's Destination NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. Read more

	October 5, 2010 Thumbs Up Given for 2013 NASA Mars Orbiter NASA's mission to investigate the mystery of how Mars lost much of its atmosphere has won approval for development, and will move toward a 2013 launch. Read more

	October 4, 2010 NASA Mission 'E-Minus' One Month to Comet Flyby Humanity's fifth close up of a comet nucleus is one month away -- and counting down. Read more

	October 4, 2010 Europa's Hidden Ice Chemistry Jupiter's moon is likely the scene of some unexpectedly fast chemistry between water and sulfur dioxide at extremely cold temperatures. Read more

	October 4, 2010 NASA Study Sees Earth's Water Cycle Pulse Quickening The circulation of water drives our planet's pulse. A new NASA/university study of river water flowing into oceans offers an early warning that the pulse may be speeding up. Read more

	October 4, 2010 NASA's WISE Mission Warms Up but Keeps Chugging Along After completing its primary mission to map the infrared sky, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has reached the expected end of its onboard supply of frozen coolant. Read more

	September 29, 2010 Atmosphere Checked, One Mars Year Before a Landing In preparation for NASA's next rover landing on the Red Planet, one Mars year away, an instrument studying the Martian atmosphere from orbit has begun a campaign. Read more

	September 29, 2010 NASA's EPOXI Mission Sets Up for Comet Flyby NASA's EPOXI mission successfully performed a trajectory correction maneuver today. The maneuver refined the spacecraft's orbit for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. Read more

	September 28, 2010 Sentinels of Climate Change NASA's new Global Ice Viewer provides an interactive window into how climate change is affecting glaciers, sea ice and continental ice sheets. Read more

	September 27, 2010 Hello, Saturn Summer Solstice: Cassini's New Chapter NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins its Solstice Mission today. Read more

	September 23, 2010 New Views of Saturn's Aurora, Captured by Cassini A new movie and images showing Saturn's shimmering aurora are helping scientists understand what drives some of the solar system's most impressive light shows. Read more

	September 23, 2010 Cassini Gazes at Veiled Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft will swing high over Saturn's moon Titan to take a long, sustained look. Read more

	September 23, 2010 Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star Birth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data reveal a newly found phenomenon that offers insight into cores of star-forming regions. Read more

	September 21, 2010 Laser Tool for Studying Mars Rocks Delivered to JPL A tool newly delivered from Los Alamos National Laboratory for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will zap Martian rocks with a laser to learn the rocks' makeup. Read more

	September 21, 2010 Mars Rover Opportunity Approaching Possible Meteorite A dark rock about the size of a toaster oven is visible in images NASA's Mars rover Opportunity took on Sept. 16. It may be a meteorite. The rover is going for a closer look. Read more

	September 21, 2010 Spring on Titan brings sunshine and patchy clouds Scientists working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft are creating the first long-term study of Titan's weather. Read more

	September 20, 2010 Orbiter Resumes Science Observations NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resumed observing Mars with its science instruments on Sept. 18, recovering from an unplanned reboot of its computer three days earlier. Read more

	September 20, 2010 NASA Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow Snowmelt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream. Read more

	September 17, 2010 Team Restoring Mars Orbiter After Reboot NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby mode after experiencing a spontaneous computer reboot on Sept. 15. Read more

	September 17, 2010 Hurricane Igor, Unchained, in NASA Satellite Images Powerful Hurricane Igor bears down on Bermuda, flanked by its baying hounds, hurricanes Julia (top right) and Karl (bottom right) in this monstrous mashup of NASA satellite images. Read more

	September 16, 2010 NASA's LRO Exposes Moon's Complex, Turbulent Youth The moon's surface is more complex than previously thought and was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, according to three new papers in the Sept. 17 issue of Science that describe data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	September 16, 2010 Five Things About NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity, is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term program of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. Read more

	September 16, 2010 Strong Robotic Arm Extends From Next Mars Rover Tests underway in a JPL clean room will refine the precision of movements by a robotic arm that can reach more than 7 feet in front of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Read more

	September 15, 2010 A Growing La Nina Chills Out the Pacific The latest satellite data from NASA's Jason-2 oceanography satellite show La Nina continuing to strengthen in the Pacific. Read more

	September 15, 2010 NASA Data Track Seasonal Pollution Changes Over India Scientists using data from an instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft have analyzed aerosol pollution over India and found some surprising trends. Read more

	September 14, 2010 NASA Uses New Method to Estimate Earth Mass Movements New NASA research mixes satellite and surface measurements with an ocean model to estimate how water is moving around Earth and measure changes caused by the last major Ice Age. Read more

	September 13, 2010 NASA's Next Mars Rover Rolls Over Ramps The rover for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity, exercised its mobility system by driving over raised ramps in recent testing at JPL. Read more

	September 9, 2010 New Report Seeks to Improve Climate Forecasts A new National Academy of Sciences report co-authored by a JPL scientist recommends ways to improve the accuracy of climate forecasts that span from weeks to a few years. Read more

	September 9, 2010 NASA Data Shed New Light About Water and Volcanoes on Mars Data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times. Read more

	September 9, 2010 Caught in the Act: Fireballs Light up Jupiter Amateur astronomers are first to detect small objects impacting Jupiter Read more

	September 8, 2010 Opportunity Rover Reaches Halfway Point of Long Trek During a long drive on Labor Day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached the estimated halfway point of its journey from Victoria Crater to Endeavour Crater. Read more

	September 8, 2010 Tally-Ho! Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet Target NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has beamed down the first of over 64,000 images it will be taking of Comet Hartley 2. Read more

	September 7, 2010 Cassini Captures a Divine Dione Cruising past Saturn's moon Dione this past weekend, NASA's Cassini spacecraft got its best look yet at the north polar region of this small, icy moon and returned stark raw images of the fractured, cratered surface. Read more

	September 7, 2010 Two Asteroids to Pass by Earth Wednesday Two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, will pass within the moon's distance of Earth on Wednesday, Sept. 8. Read more

	September 3, 2010 Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic Arm Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010. Read more

	September 3, 2010 ATHLETE Rover Steps Up to Long Desert Trek The ATHLETE rover is poised to go 40 kilometers in the Arizona desert as part of the 2010 Desert RATS test. Read more

	September 3, 2010 Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life. Read more

	September 2, 2010 NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye Two advanced weather instruments from JPL are busy flying above Hurricane Earl, as NASA's field campaign to study how hurricanes form and intensify continues. Read more

	September 2, 2010 NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter Mission NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. Read more

	September 2, 2010 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions. Read more

	September 1, 2010 NASA Images Dissect Hurricane Earl As the U.S. East Coast prepares to duke it out with large and powerful Hurricane Earl, NASA satellites and instruments are busy gathering valuable information on the storm. Read more

	September 1, 2010 Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert How did water end up around an old, dying star? The Herschel space observatory has new clues. Read more

	August 26, 2010 Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily profiles of the changing structure of the planet's atmosphere. Read more

	August 26, 2010 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. Read more

	August 25, 2010 WISE Captures the Unicorn's Rose Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's WISE mission shows the Rosette nebula in the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn. Read more

	August 25, 2010 NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Niños are Growing Stronger A new type of El Niño is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new NASA/NOAA study that has potential implications for long-term weather forecasting. Read more

	August 23, 2010 Vote for NASA Panels at South By Southwest NASA has cool tools to share with armchair astronauts at the 2011 South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. Here's how you can help make that happen. Read more

	August 23, 2010 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	August 20, 2010 NASA Images Show Anatomy of Pakistan Flood Disaster A series of new NASA satellite images provides useful perspectives on the origins, extent and effects of the massive flooding devastating large parts of Pakistan. Read more

	August 20, 2010 History-Making Mars Mission Launched 35 Years Ago NASA's Viking 1 mission, launched on Aug. 20, 1975, put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars and delivered the first successful lander to the Martian surface. Read more

	August 19, 2010 Cosmic Lens Used to Probe Dark Energy for First Time Astronomers have devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe -- dark energy. Read more

	August 18, 2010 Galaxies' Glory Days Revealed Astronomers have experienced the galactic equivalent of discovering pictures of a mild-mannered grandmother partying as a wild youth. Read more

	August 16, 2010 Move Over Caravaggio: Cassini's Light and Dark Moons NASA's Cassini spacecraft has returned Saturnian moon images from its flyby late last week, revealing light and dark contrasts worthy of chiaroscuro painters like Caravaggio. Read more

	August 14, 2010 Cassini Bags Enceladus 'Tigers' NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its flyby over the "tiger stripes" in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus and returned intriguing images. Read more

	August 12, 2010 NASA Releases New Image of Massive Greenland Iceberg A new NASA satellite image shows the continued movement of a massive iceberg that broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier on Aug. 5. Read more

	August 12, 2010 Cassini Hunting Enceladus 'Tigers' with Night Vision NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be hunting for heat signatures at the "tiger stripes" in the dim south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Friday, Aug. 13. Read more

	August 12, 2010 Raisin' Mountains on Saturn's Moon Titan Saturn's moon Titan ripples with mountains, and scientists have been trying to figure out how they form. Read more

	August 11, 2010 NASA Video Shows Global Reach of Pollution from Fires Wildfires in Russia, eastern Siberia and Canada are spreading hazardous air pollution far beyond their borders, as seen in a pair of new NASA satellite animations. Read more

	August 11, 2010 Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies, which seem to have a second lease on life. Read more

	August 10, 2010 WISE Spacecraft Warming Up NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is warming up. Team members say the spacecraft is running out of the frozen coolant needed to keep its heat-sensitive instrument chilled. Read more

	August 9, 2010 Send in the Clouds Clouds, our fluffy friends in the sky, are essential to life on Earth. They're also not unique to our planet. Scientists ponder the role of clouds in our universe. Read more

	August 7, 2010 NASA Instrument Tracks Pollution from Russian Fires Drought and the worst heat wave Russia has seen in 130 years have sparked a devastating outbreak of wildfires across the nation this summer, primarily in the country's western and central regions. Read more

	August 6, 2010 How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and 'Save the Dates' Insider tips on 2010 and 2011's meteor showers and how to make the most of each opportunity to watch a visitor from space take that final dive. Read more

	August 5, 2010 NASA Images Show Continuing Mexico Quake Deformation The latest NASA radar images of the Southern California region rattled by a 7.2 quake in Mexico's Baja California on April 4 show continued deformation in Earth's surface. Read more

	August 5, 2010 NASA's Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. Read more

	August 4, 2010 Hundreds of New Views from Telescope Orbiting Mars The most powerful telescopic camera ever to orbit Mars reveals a fresh crater, an ice mound, climate-recording layers and many other views in 314 newly released observations. Read more

	August 2, 2010 New Project Manager for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a new project manager: Phil Varghese, who has managed another veteran NASA Mars mission - the Mars Odyssey orbiter - since 2004. Read more

	August 2, 2010 NASA and ESA's First Joint Mission to Mars Selects Instruments NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and selected the five science instruments for the first mission. Read more

	July 30, 2010 NASA's ATHLETE Warms Up for High Desert Run ATHLETE moon rover must prove it can go the distance before it heads to the Arizona desert for field testing. Read more

	July 30, 2010 NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet - trying to survive the harsh Martian winter. Read more

	July 29, 2010 Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. Read more

	July 28, 2010 Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has photographed its first dust devil, a challenging feat in the area where Opportunity is working. Read more

	July 28, 2010 GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft, scheduled for launch in 2011. Read more

	July 26, 2010 Senior Year Can Wait -- I'm Working at JPL! Imagine you're at school, munching on a cheeseburger during lunch, just chatting with your friends about how awesome it is that NASA is sending a rover to Mars. Read more

	July 23, 2010 Bonnie Takes Aim at an Oily Gulf Tropical Storm Bonnie, now a depression, rakes South Florida in this July 23 NASA infrared image, en route to a weekend run-in with the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf oil spill. Read more

	July 23, 2010 Mars Curiosity Takes First Baby Steps Like proud parents, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time. Read more

	July 23, 2010 Curiosity Rover Grows by Leaps and Bounds In one week, Curiosity grew by approximately 1 meter (3.5 feet) when spacecraft technicians and engineers attached the rover's neck and head (called the Remote Sensing Mast) to its body. Read more

	July 23, 2010 NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Read more

	July 22, 2010 NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Read more

	July 20, 2010 NASA Goes Deep in Search of Extreme Environments NASA-funded researchers searching for extreme environments for life have discovered the world's deepest hydrothermal vent, 5,000 meters below the surface of the Caribbean. Read more

	July 20, 2010 Orbiter Puts Itself Into Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode, and the mission team has begun steps to resume the spacecraft's science and relay operations this week. Read more

	July 20, 2010 Cassini Sees Moon Building Giant Snowballs in Saturn Ring While orbiting Saturn for the last six years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has kept a close eye on the collisions and disturbances in the gas giant's rings. Read more

	July 19, 2010 Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover's Touchdown A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars. Read more

	July 16, 2010 NASA's WISE Mission to Complete Extensive Sky Survey NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17, 2010. Read more

	July 15, 2010 See Beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini's Guided Tour This lake on Saturn's moon Titan turns out to be a perfect exotic vacation spot, provided you can handle subzero temperatures and enjoy soaking in liquid hydrocarbon. Read more

	July 14, 2010 Giant Antenna Propped Up, Ready for Joint Replacement Workers at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., are making progress on a major renovation on the 70-meter-wide "Mars antenna." Read more

	July 14, 2010 Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive Star A new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born -- and hints at the possibility that planets could form around the galaxy's biggest bodies. Read more

	July 13, 2010 Curiosity Spins Its Wheels The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars. Read more

	July 13, 2010 Study Finds Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees In 2005, scientists saw a spike in tree deaths in the Amazon, which was attributed to drought. Now a NASA-funded study finds a single, massive thunderstorm was also to blame. Read more

	July 12, 2010 Juno Armored Up to Go to Jupiter NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is currently being assembled, recently received its protective shield. Read more

	July 12, 2010 NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet. Read more

	July 9, 2010 Heavy Metal Rock Takes Center Stage The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, did a close flyby of asteroid Lutetia on Saturday, July 10. Read more

	July 8, 2010 Saturn Propellers Reflect Solar System Origins Scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn have stalked a new class of moons in the rings of Saturn that create distinctive propeller-shaped gaps in ring material. Read more

	July 7, 2010 NASA to Fly Into Hurricane Research this Summer Three NASA aircraft will begin flights to study tropical cyclones on Aug. 15 during the agency's first major U.S.-based hurricane field campaign since 2001. Read more

	July 7, 2010 Puff, the Magic Dragon? A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly with the stars in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (bottom). In visible light (top), the creature disappears into the mist. Read more

	July 6, 2010 A Closer Look at Daphnis NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the closest images of Saturn's moon Daphnis to date. Read more

	July 6, 2010 Planck Takes It All In A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year -- surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins. Read more

	July 6, 2010 Cassini to Dive Low through Titan Atmosphere As American schoolchildren head out to pools for a summer splash, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be taking its own deep plunge through the Titan atmosphere this week. Read more

	July 1, 2010 Next Mars Rover Sports a Set of New Wheels A new set of spiffy wheels is now affixed to NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Engineers added the wheels and suspension system this week, during preparations for a planned launch in late 2011. Read more

	July 1, 2010 Man in the Moon has 'Graphite Whiskers' In a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17, researchers have detected and dated carbon on the moon in the form of graphite. Read more

	June 29, 2010 Alex Stirs Up the Gulf Tropical Storm Alex, soon to be a hurricane, churns its way through the western half of the Gulf of Mexico in this NASA infrared image taken Tuesday afternoon, June 29. Read more

	June 29, 2010 Engineers Assess Dawn's Reaction Wheel Engineers are studying the reaction wheels on NASA's Dawn spacecraft after automatic sensors detected excess friction building up in one of them. Read more

	June 29, 2010 NASA Mars Rover Seeing Destination in More Detail A super-resolution view toward Endeavour Crater from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows discernible features in the rim of that long-term destination. Read more

	June 28, 2010 'Hitchhiker' EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2 NASA's EPOXI spacecraft "hitched a ride" on Earth's gravity field and is now heading toward its appointment with comet Hartley 2 this fall. Read more

	June 28, 2010 Clearing the Air on Weather Versus Climate Weather and climate are easily confused, but they’re not the same. JPL atmospheric scientist Eric Fetzer explains the difference and gives his thoughts on climate change. Read more

	June 28, 2010 Voyager 2 at 12,000 Days: The Super-Marathon Continues NASA's plucky Voyager 2 spacecraft has hit a long-haul operations milestone today -- operating continuously for 12,000 days. Read more

	June 28, 2010 NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian Past NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals. Read more

	June 28, 2010 NASA Satellite Adds Carbon Dioxide to its Repertoire A NASA-led team has expanded the growing global armada of remote sensing satellites capable of studying carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas driving changes in our climate. Read more

	June 25, 2010 Earth to Lend Helping Hand to Comet Craft NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday, June 27. Read more

	June 24, 2010 The Coolest Stars Come Out of the Dark Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe. Read more

	June 24, 2010 New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars Was Global Minerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally, not just in the south. Read more

	June 23, 2010 NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake. Read more

	June 23, 2010 Earth-like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-Up Many scientists speculate that our galaxy could be full of places like Pandora from the movie "Avatar" -- Earth-like worlds in solar systems besides our own. Read more

	June 22, 2010 NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for OCO-2 Mission NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission. Read more

	June 22, 2010 Adios El Niño, Hello La Niña? The moderate El Niño of the past year has officially bowed out, leaving his cool sister, La Niña, poised to potentially take the equatorial stage. Read more

	June 21, 2010 Super Swooper at Saturn's Moon Cassini has successfully completed its lowest pass through Titan's atmosphere. Read more

	June 17, 2010 Cassini Getting the Lowdown on Titan This Weekend NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take its lowest dip through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in the early morning of June 21 UTC, or June 20 Pacific Time. Read more

	June 17, 2010 Jumbo Jellyfish or Massive Star? Some might see a blood-red jellyfish, while others might see a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object in this new image from WISE is a sphere of stellar innards. Read more

	June 17, 2010 Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. Read more

	June 17, 2010 Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars California middle school students using the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have found lava tubes with one pit that appears to be a skylight to a cave. Read more

	June 15, 2010 NASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential Extrasolar Planets NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. Read more

	June 14, 2010 NASAJPL Facebook Fans Design Fantasy Space Vacation Enjoy some creative fantasy space vacation ideas from our friends on the NASAJPL Facebook page. Read more

	June 14, 2010 NASA Demonstrates Tsunami Prediction System A NASA-led research team has successfully demonstrated for the first time elements of a prototype tsunami prediction system that quickly and accurately assesses large earthquakes and estimates the size of resulting tsunamis. Read more

	June 11, 2010 NASA Dryden Hosts Radar Tests for Next Mars Landing Engineers have finished a key step in testing the radar system for NASA's next mission to Mars, using helicopter flights at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. Read more

	June 10, 2010 NASA Kicks Off New Summer of Innovation Initiative NASA Administrator Charles Bolden kicked off the agency's new Summer of Innovation initiative today while at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calf. Read more

	June 10, 2010 NASA and DLR Sign Agreement to Continue Grace Mission Through 2015 NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and German Aerospace Center Executive Board Chairman Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed an agreement to extend the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. Read more

	June 9, 2010 Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs. Read more

	June 8, 2010 NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming A Japanese spacecraft will return a capsule to Earth on June 13 in a uninhabited area of South Australia. NASA scientists and engineers have played a contributing role in the mission. Read more

	June 7, 2010 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Fires Past Record for Speed Change NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has eclipsed the record for velocity change produced by a spacecraft's engines. Read more

	June 3, 2010 Next Stop, Titan: Looking at the Land o' Lakes NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be eyeing the north polar region of Saturn's moon Titan this weekend, scanning the moon's land o' lakes. Read more

	June 3, 2010 What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan? Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Read more

	June 3, 2010 NASA Rover Finds Clue to Mars' Past and Environment for Life Rocks examined by NASA's Spirit Mars Rover hold evidence of a wet, non-acidic ancient environment that may have been favorable for life. Read more

	June 3, 2010 NASA Kicks Off Student Summer of Innovation Program June 10 NASA officially kicks off its Summer of Innovation initiative at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, June 10. Read more

	June 2, 2010 NASA Images Show Oil's Invasion Along Louisiana Coast By combining data from multiple cameras of JPL's MISR instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, scientists gain new perspectives on the spread of oil into Louisiana's fragile wetlands. Read more

	June 1, 2010 Backwards Black Holes Might Make Bigger Jets Going against the grain may turn out to be a powerful move for black holes. Read more

	May 28, 2010 NASA Spacecraft Burns for Home, Then Comet NASA's Deep Impact/Epoxi spacecraft successfully performed a maneuver to refine its orbit prior to an upcoming Earth flyby June 27. Read more

	May 27, 2010 NASA Sensor Completes Initial Gulf Oil Spill Flights JPL's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer instrument has completed its initial assessment of the Gulf oil spill. Read more

	May 27, 2010 NASA Takes to the Air With New 'Earth Venture' Research Projects Hurricanes, air quality and Arctic ecosystems are among the research areas to be investigated during the next five years by new NASA airborne science missions announced today. Read more

	May 27, 2010 Small Near-Earth Object Probably a Rocket Part Scientists have determined that a small object that safely passed Earth on May 21 is more than likely an upper-stage of a rocket. Read more

	May 26, 2010 NASA Satellite Spots Oil at Mississippi Delta Mouth A new image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill lapping at the mouth of the Mississippi River delta. Read more

	May 26, 2010 NASA Orbiter Penetrates Mysteries of Martian Ice Cap Data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have helped scientists solve a pair of decades-old mysteries and provided new information about climate change on Mars. Read more

	May 26, 2010 Astronomers Discover New Star-Forming Regions in Milky Way NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and radio telescopes are probing the structure of our Milky Way galaxy. Read more

	May 25, 2010 NASA Satellites Keep Watch on Gulf Current Near Spill Scientists are using NASA satellite data to keep a close eye on a powerful current in the Gulf of Mexico that could carry the Gulf oil spill into the Atlantic. Read more

	May 24, 2010 Phoenix Mars Lander is Silent, New Image Shows Damage NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated, unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander, and a new orbiter image shows signs of ice damage to Phoenix. Read more

	May 24, 2010 WISE Telescope has Heart and Soul NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured a huge mosaic of two bubbling clouds in space, known as the Heart and Soul nebulae. Read more

	May 24, 2010 Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System -- Update Engineers successfully reset a computer onboard Voyager 2 that caused an unexpected data pattern shift, and the spacecraft resumed sending properly formatted science data back to Earth on Sunday, May 23 Read more

	May 24, 2010 WISE Makes Progress on Its Space Rock Catalog NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is busy surveying the landscape of the infrared sky, building up a catalog of cosmic specimens -- everything from distant galaxies to "failed" stars, called brown dwarfs. Read more

	May 20, 2010 Geometry Drives Selection Date for 2011 Mars Launch For optimal communications during arrival at Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, will launch after Thanksgiving 2011 and land on Mars in August 2012. Read more

	May 20, 2010 Two Peas in an Irregular Pod Our sun may be an only child, but most of the stars in the galaxy are actually twins. Read more

	May 20, 2010 NASA's MISR Provides Unique Views of Gulf Oil Slick New Gulf oil spill images from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft paint dramatic portraits of different aspects of the growing spill. Read more

	May 19, 2010 New Study Finds Ocean Warmed Significantly Since 1993 A new study co-authored by JPL’s Josh Willis finds the upper layer of Earth’s ocean has warmed significantly over the past 16 years, indicating a strong climate change signal. Read more

	May 19, 2010 NASA's Mars Rovers Set Surface Longevity Record NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project will pass a historic Martian longevity record on Thursday, May 20. Read more

	May 19, 2010 Cassini Heading to Titan after Tagging Enceladus Scientists rate Cassini's 10th flyby of Enceladus... a 10. Read more

	May 17, 2010 Cassini Double Play: Enceladus and Titan About a month and a half after its last double flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turning another double play this week, visiting Enceladus and Titan. Read more

	May 13, 2010 Final Attempts to Hear from Mars Phoenix Scheduled From May 17 to 21, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will conduct a fourth and final campaign to check on whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has come back to life. Read more

	May 13, 2010 Virtual Open House: Next Best Thing to Being Here Can't make it to this year's annual Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Join our virtual event live on Ustream.tv on Saturday, May 15. Read more

	May 13, 2010 Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, and asteroids that just happened to be cruising by. Read more

	May 12, 2010 NASA to Fund Innovative Museum Exhibits and Planetarium Shows Innovative planetarium shows and traveling museum exhibits are among nine projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding this year. Read more

	May 12, 2010 Mars Image Takes Earth Photo Event to a New World When some Mars explorers learned of plans for a worldwide photography event combining shots taken from thousands of different locations on May 2, 2010, they figured, "Why just one world?" Read more

	May 11, 2010 Hubble Camera Arrives in Time for JPL Open House The historic Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, built by JPL for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has arrived at JPL in advance of this weekend's annual Open House. Read more

	May 11, 2010 NASA, JPL Assets Aiding in Oil Spill Response JPL instruments and personnel are among the NASA assets being used by U.S. disaster response agencies to assess the spread and impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more

	May 11, 2010 Ancient City of Galaxies Looks Surprisingly Modern In a recent deep excavation, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers unearthed what may be the most distant, primitive cluster of galaxies ever found. Read more

	May 11, 2010 Rock and Roll: Titan's Gem Tumbler It appears flash flooding has paved streambeds in the Xanadu region of Saturn's moon Titan with thousands of sparkling crystal balls of ice, according to scientists with NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	May 10, 2010 Herschel Finds a Hole in Space The Herschel Space Observatory has made an unexpected discovery: a gaping hole in the clouds surrounding a batch of young stars. Read more

	May 10, 2010 JPL Invites the Public to Annual Open House JPL invites the public to a close-up look at its past, present and future at its annual Open House on Saturday, May 15, and Sunday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read more

	May 7, 2010 NASA Captures Night Infrared View of Gulf Oil Spill A May 7 nighttime infrared image of the Gulf oil spill from an instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft provides a different perspective on the oil slick nearing the Gulf coast. Read more

	May 6, 2010 Herschel Gets Sneak Peak at Star Birth The first scientific results from the Herschel infrared space observatory are revealing previously hidden details of star formation. Read more

	May 5, 2010 New Martian Views From Orbiting Camera Show Diversity New images from more than 750 recent observations of Mars by an orbiting telescopic camera testify to the diversity of landscapes there. Read more

	May 4, 2010 NASA, JPL Websites Win Webby Awards Three NASA sites have won awards in the 14th Annual Webby Awards -- the leading international honor for the world's best websites. Read more

	May 3, 2010 NASA Satellite Views Massive Gulf Oil Spill New NASA satellite images show the extent of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more

	April 30, 2010 Mars Rover Sees Distant Crater Rims on Horizon NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured a new view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the sandy Martian landscape. Read more

	April 30, 2010 Cassini Returning Enceladus Gravity Data NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its 26-hour gravity observation at Saturn’s moon Enceladus this week. Read more

	April 29, 2010 Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn's atmosphere. Read more

	April 29, 2010 Radar Clicks Asteroid's Pic Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 was "imaged" by the Arecibo Radar Telescope in Puerto Rico on April 19. Read more

	April 28, 2010 Scientists Say Ice Lurks In Asteroid's Cold Heart Scientists using a NASA funded telescope have detected water-ice and carbon-based organic compounds on the surface of an asteroid. Read more

	April 28, 2010 NASA Study Sheds Light on Ozone Hole Chemistry A new NASA study of Earth's polar ozone layer reinforces scientists' understanding of how human-produced chlorine chemicals involved in the destruction of ozone interact with each other. Read more

	April 26, 2010 Planck Sees a Cold and Stormy Orion The big hunter in the sky is seen in a new light by Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation. Read more

	April 26, 2010 Cassini Measures Tug of Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be gliding low over Saturn's moon Enceladus for a gravity experiment designed to probe the moon's interior composition. Read more

	April 22, 2010 Web Chat: How Does NASA Study Earth's Climate? Earth Day Web Chat, Apr. 22, 10 a.m. Pacific -- Students ask a scientist how NASA studies Earth's climate. Read more

	April 21, 2010 JPL Marks Earth's Big Day It's your planet. It's your future. It's our mission. Join NASA and JPL in celebrating Earth Day April 22 with events, interactive activities and online resources. Read more

	April 21, 2010 'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system. Read more

	April 20, 2010 NASA Satellite Helps Measure Iceland Volcanic Plume An instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft is helping officials accurately estimate the heights of the massive ash plumes emitted by Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Read more

	April 20, 2010 A Hot Challenge for Earth Day Here's another way to celebrate Earth Day this week -- take our quiz to test your knowledge of global temperature and its impact on Earth's climate. Read more

	April 19, 2010 Celebrate Earth Day With NASA How do you and your family help our planet? Students, classrooms and families are invited to share their comments and also learn how NASA studies Earth. Read more

	April 19, 2010 NASA Continues to Track Persistent Iceland Volcano A new NASA infrared image of Iceland's erupting volcano shows its billowing ash plume, lava erupting from its current vent, and still-hot lava flows from earlier eruption phases. Read more

	April 18, 2010 NASA Satellite Eyes Iceland Volcano Cauldron New NASA satellite images of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano provide a peek into its explosive cauldron. Read more

	April 16, 2010 NASA Satellite Images Dissect Iceland Volcanic Plume A thermal infrared analysis of NASA satellite imagery of the ash plume from Iceland's erupting volcano provides insights into its composition. Read more

	April 16, 2010 NASA Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Earth Day JPL and other NASA centers across the nation invite the public to see and hear about the agency's contributions to understanding and protecting Earth. Read more

	April 15, 2010 NASA Instrument Sees Disruptive Iceland Volcanic Cloud A JPL-built instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft imaged the ash cloud from an erupting Iceland volcano that's wreaking havoc for air travelers in Northern Europe and around the world. Read more

	April 15, 2010 Wisconsin Fireball Caught On Tape A rooftop webcam at the University of Wisconsin-Madison captured the final seconds of a fireball's Wednesday, April 14 descent into the atmosphere. Read more

	April 14, 2010 Flash: NASA's Cassini Sees Lightning on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of lightning on Saturn. The images have allowed scientists to create the first movie showing lightning flashing on another planet. Read more

	April 14, 2010 Small, Ground-Based Telescope Images Three Exoplanets Astronomers have snapped a picture of three planets orbiting a star beyond our own using a modest-sized telescope on the ground. Read more

	April 13, 2010 Comets, the Solar System's Most Spectacular Nomads An interactive web site provides an overview of comets - including details on their anatomy and information on comets that have been visited by spacecraft. Read more

	April 13, 2010 Ulysses Spacecraft Data Reveal a Comet Biggie Using data from the completed ESA/NASA Ulysses mission, scientists have identified a new candidate for biggest comet. Read more

	April 13, 2010 No Peep from Phoenix in Third Odyssey Listening Stint NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter heard no signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander when it listened from orbit while passing over Phoenix 60 times last week. Read more

	April 13, 2010 Helicopter Helps Test Radar for 2012 Mars Landing This spring, engineers are testing a radar system that will serve during the next landing on Mars. Read more

	April 12, 2010 Cassini Finishes Saturnian Doubleheader NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its double flyby this week, swinging by Saturn's moons Titan and Dione with no maneuver in between. Read more

	April 12, 2010 Space Telescope Moves on with One Detector Mission engineers and scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer are no longer planning science observations around one of the space telescope's two ultraviolet detectors. Read more

	April 12, 2010 Herschel Reveals Ripening Stars Near Rosette Nebula The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a cosmic garden of budding stars, each expected to grow to 10 times the mass of our sun. Read more

	April 8, 2010 NASA-Funded Research Suggests Venus is Geologically Alive For the first time, scientists have detected clear signs of recent lava flows on the surface of Venus. Read more

	April 8, 2010 NASA's Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. Read more

	April 7, 2010 NASA Sensors Providing Rapid Estimates of Iceland Volcano Emissions A NASA research team is using the latest advances in satellite artificial intelligence to speed up estimates of the heat and volume of lava escaping from an erupting volcano in Iceland. Read more

	April 7, 2010 Hiding Out Behind the Milky Way A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in this new infrared view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Read more

	April 7, 2010 Meteor Showers: Shooting for Shooting Stars Meteor showers – one of the many benefits to living on a planet with an atmosphere. Read more

	April 6, 2010 San Diego Team Delivers Camera for Next Mars Rover JPL has received the two cameras for the Mast Camera instrument, the science-imaging workhorse of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, to be launched next year. Read more

	April 6, 2010 Asteroid to Fly by Within Moon's Orbit Thursday A newly discovered asteroid, 2010 GA6, will safely fly by Earth this Thursday at 7:06 p.m. Pacific (2:06 U.T.C.). Read more

	April 5, 2010 Topography Reflects Baja Quake Site's Complex Geology New NASA topographic images of northern Baja, California, site of a 7.2 quake on April 4, reflect the complex geology caused by colliding tectonic plates. Read more

	April 5, 2010 Juno Taking Shape in Denver Assembly has begun on NASA's Juno spacecraft, which will help scientists understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Read more

	April 5, 2010 NASA Demonstrates Novel Ocean-Powered Underwater Vehicle NASA, U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal energy. Read more

	April 5, 2010 WISE: Your Guide to the Infrared Sky Learn about NASA's WISE mission and all the goodies it is expected to uncover in this new, interactive feature. Read more

	April 2, 2010 Cassini Doubleheader: Flying By Titan and Dione In a special double flyby early next week, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will visit Saturn's moons Titan and Dione within a period of about a day and a half, with no maneuvers in between. Read more

	April 2, 2010 Third Listening Period to Begin Monday, April 5 From April 5 through April 9, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will conduct a third campaign to check whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has come back to life after experiencing a Martian arctic winter it was not designed to survive. Read more

	April 1, 2010 Colony of Young Stars Shines in New Spitzer Image Astronomers have their eyes on a hot group of young stars, watching their every move like the paparazzi. Read more

	April 1, 2010 Glaciers and Ice Caps: How Much Do You Know? Test your knowledge of the cold, hard facts about Earth’s ice and its link to climate change with our brain freezer teaser. Read more

	March 31, 2010 Spirit May Have Begun Months-Long Hibernation NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit skipped a planned communication session on March 30 and, as anticipated from recent power-supply projections, has probably entered a low-power hibernation mode. Read more

	March 31, 2010 NASA Mars Spacecraft Snaps Photos Chosen by Public The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has returned the first pictures of locations on the Red Planet suggested by the public. Read more

	March 29, 2010 High Schools Battle It Out at Robotic Match Fifty-eight teams from Southern California, Florida, Massachusetts and Chile competed in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics competition this past weekend, March 27 and 28. Read more

	March 29, 2010 1980s Video Icon Glows on Saturn Moon The highest-resolution-yet temperature map and images of Saturn's icy moon Mimas obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including unexpected hot regions that resemble "Pac-Man" eating a dot, and striking bands of light and dark in crater walls. Read more

	March 29, 2010 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer Image A new image from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. Read more

	March 25, 2010 NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no significant slowing over the past 15 years. Read more

	March 25, 2010 NASA's Grace Sees Rapid Spread in Greenland Ice Loss A new international study finds losses in Greenland's ice sheet are now spreading rapidly up its northwest coast. Read more

	March 25, 2010 Space Operations Award Going to Mars Rover Team The team that operates NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will receive the 2010 International Space Ops Award for Outstanding Achievement. Read more

	March 24, 2010 Opportunity Surpasses 20 Kilometers of Total Driving NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity today surpassed 20 kilometers (12.43 miles) of total driving since it landed on Mars 74 months ago. Read more

	March 24, 2010 Mars Rover Examines Odd Material at Small, Young Crater Weird coatings on rocks beside a young Martian crater remain puzzling after a preliminary look at data from examination of the site by NASA's Opportunity rover. Read more

	March 23, 2010 JPL Scientists to Share Research at Free Climate Day Event JPL Climate Day 2010 will bring students, educators and the general public together with scientists and other climate experts for a free, educational and fun event about Earth's changing climate. Read more

	March 23, 2010 NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location. Read more

	March 22, 2010 Earth's Real Movers and Shakers Star in New Tectonic Model NASA and university researchers have released the result of a 20-year effort to precisely describe the relative movements of Earth's interlocking tectonic plates. Read more

	March 19, 2010 JPL Wins 'Green Building Award' JPL's environmentally friendly Flight Projects Center received a "Green Building Award" at the fourth annual Green California Leadership Awards, held during this week's Green California Summit. Read more

	March 18, 2010 El Niño's Last Hurrah? Satellite data show yet another strong wave of warm water moving eastward across the central equatorial Pacific. Could this be El Niño's last stand? Read more

	March 18, 2010 Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather From Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a rough and tumble roller derby among the gas giant's rings. Read more

	March 17, 2010 Little Shrimp Makes Big Splash Beneath Antarctica A JPL-designed camera submerged 600 feet beneath the Antarctic ice sheet to image its underbelly has yielded an unexpected find -- a shrimp. Read more

	March 17, 2010 NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. Read more

	March 17, 2010 Planck Mission Images Galactic Web of Cold Dust Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe. Read more

	March 16, 2010 See Spot on Jupiter. See Spot Glow. Scientists Get First Look at Weather Inside the Solar System's Biggest Storm. Read more

	March 16, 2010 WISE Captures a Cosmic Rose A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. Read more

	March 11, 2010 Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. Read more

	March 8, 2010 Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery. Read more

	March 5, 2010 Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics Watch school teams test their software-enabled Lego robots via a live Internet program during the annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition. Read more

	March 4, 2010 NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space One year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like Earth. Read more

	March 4, 2010 Is That Saturn's Moon Titan or Utah? Planetary scientists, who have been puzzling for years over the surface features on Saturn's moon Titan, have now found some recognizable analogies to a type of terrain on Earth known as karst topography. Read more

	March 4, 2010 Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula. Read more

	March 4, 2010 Mars Dunes: On the Move? Mars has diversity. In at least one area, Martian sand dunes are actively migrating. In another, they have been stationary for 100,000 years. Read more

	March 4, 2010 Robot Vs. Robot: Live in Washington and Across the Nation NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6. Read more

	March 3, 2010 NASA Mars Orbiter Speeds Past Data Milestone NASA's newest Mars orbiter has passed a data-volume milestone unimaginable a generation ago and still difficult to fathom - 100 terabits. Read more

	March 2, 2010 Radar Map of Buried Martian Ice Adds to Climate Record Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble. Read more

	March 1, 2010 Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day. Read more

	March 1, 2010 Salt-Seeking Satellite Shaken By Quake, But Not Stirred NASA's Aquarius instrument, and the Argentinian spacecraft that will carry it into space, rode out the Feb. 27 Chilean earthquake without a scratch. Read more

	March 1, 2010 On the JPL Blog: Road-Tripping to Rhea with Cassini On Tuesday, March 2, 2010, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its closest encounter yet with Saturn’s second largest moon. Read more

	February 26, 2010 NASA Announces 2010 Carl Sagan Fellows NASA has selected seven scientists as recipients of Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in exoplanet exploration for 2010. Read more

	February 25, 2010 NASA Breaks Ground on New Deep Space Network Antennas NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications. Read more

	February 23, 2010 No Signal Heard During First Day of Resumed Listening for Phoenix NASA's Mars Odyssey began a second campaign Monday to check on whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has revived itself after the northern Martian winter. Read more

	February 23, 2010 New NASA Web Page Sheds Light on Science of Warming World NASA has launched a new Web page to help people better understand the causes and effects of Earth's changing climate. Read more

	February 23, 2010 Cassini Finds Plethora of Plumes, Hotspots at Enceladus Newly released images from Cassini's November swoop over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing the south polar region. Read more

	February 23, 2010 Temperature Trackers Watch Our Watery World Wax and Wane The ocean plays a key role in determining Earth’s temperatures, and, say NASA scientists, could well contribute to making 2010 the warmest year on record. Read more

	February 22, 2010 Pictures That Paint a Thousand Words A new image gallery on NASA's Global Climate Change Web site highlights some dramatic examples of how our planet is changing over time. Read more

	February 19, 2010 Rain, Rain, Go Online A new webcam at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is keeping an eye on debris and water flows that could course down nearby wildfire-stripped hillsides during a rainstorm. Read more

	February 19, 2010 Behold the Violent History of Saturn's White Whale Moon Like the battered white whale Moby Dick taunting Captain Ahab, Saturn's moon Prometheus surges toward the viewer in a 3-D image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	February 18, 2010 Missing 'Ice Arches' Contributed to 2007 Arctic Ice Loss In 2007, the Arctic lost a massive amount of thick, multiyear sea ice, contributing to that year's record-low extent of Arctic sea ice. Read more

	February 18, 2010 NASA's Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away Just three days shy of one year before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, Stardust has successfully performed a maneuver to adjust its encounter time by eight hours and 20 minutes. Read more

	February 18, 2010 Jurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near Us Four NASA space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and Swift— help probe a dinosaur-like find of galactic proportions. Read more

	February 17, 2010 Enhanced 3D Model of Mars Crater Edge Shows Ups and Downs A dramatic 3D Mars view based on terrain modeling from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data shows "highs and lows" of Mojave Crater. Read more

	February 17, 2010 NASA's WISE Mission Releases Medley of First Images A diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Read more

	February 16, 2010 NASA Finds Warmer Ocean Speeding Greenland Glacier Melt A new NASA study finds undersea melting of glaciers in west Greenland due to ocean warming is playing a major, previously overlooked, role in their evolution. Read more

	February 16, 2010 Cassini Shoots New Close-Ups of Death Star-like Moon Blazing through its closest pass of the Saturnian moon Mimas on Feb. 13, Cassini sent back striking close-ups of the moon likened to the Death Star from "Star Wars" and the enormous crater scarring its surface. Read more

	February 16, 2010 Get Set for a Possible Glimpse of an Asteroid The most prominent asteroid in the sky is currently yours for the perusing with binoculars -- and perhaps even the naked eye. Read more

	February 12, 2010 Voyager Celebrates 20-Year-Old Valentine to Solar System On Feb. 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 had sailed beyond the farthest planet in our solar system and snapped an image that was a parting valentine to our string of planets. Read more

	February 11, 2010 Cassini Set to Do Retinal Scan of Saturnian Eyeball On Feb. 13, 2010, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its closest examination yet of Mimas, Saturn's eyeball-shaped moon that has also been likened to the Death Star of "Star Wars." Read more

	February 11, 2010 WISE Spies a Comet with its Powerful Infrared Eye WISE has discovered its first comet, one of many objects the mission is expected to find during its ongoing infrared survey of the sky. Read more

	February 11, 2010 Spirit Finishes Pre-Winter Drives NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter. Read more

	February 11, 2010 Layers in a Mars Crater Record a History of Changes Hundreds of exposed rock layers near the center of a Martian crater reveal a record of major environmental changes on Mars billions of years ago. Read more

	February 11, 2010 Shuttle Mission That Mapped Earth Marks 10th Anniversary Ten years ago, two JPL radar antennas launched on a mission to map the topography of a mysterious, cloud-covered world, called Earth. Read more

	February 10, 2010 JPL Hosts Annual High-Tech Small Business Conference JPL, NASA and the Small Business Administration are hosting the annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday, March 2, and Wednesday, March 3, at the Westin Hotel in Los Angeles. Read more

	February 9, 2010 Spitzer Goes to the Olympics Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more

	February 4, 2010 NASA Radar Studies Continue in Central America, Hispaniola NASA radar imaging flights over Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are in the second week of a three-week campaign. Read more

	February 3, 2010 Suspected Asteroid Crash Leaves Odd Debris Trail NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Read more

	February 3, 2010 NASA Extends Cassini's Tour of Saturn, Continuing International Cooperation for World Class Science NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017. Read more

	February 3, 2010 A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars. Read more

	February 1, 2010 JPL Airborne Radar Captures Its First Image of Post-Quake Haiti JPL's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) captured this false-color composite image of the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding region. Read more

	February 1, 2010 NASA's Aquarius Gets a Presidential Visit Argentina's president got an up-close look at NASA's Aquarius instrument at the Argentine facility where it's being integrated with the SAC-D spacecraft. Read more

	January 29, 2010 The Coolest of Orbs Astronomers using several telescopes, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered what appears to be the coolest star-like body known. Read more

	January 28, 2010 Prometheus: Over Easy Looking for all intents and purposes like a celestial egg after a session in Saturn's skillet, Prometheus displayed its pockmarked, irregular surface for NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 27, 2010. Read more

	January 28, 2010 New NASA Web Site Launches Kids on Mission to Save Our Planet Climate change can be a daunting topic for most adults to grasp, let alone kids. Read more

	January 27, 2010 Route 66: Cassini's Next Look at Titan Sixteen days after last visiting Saturn's largest moon, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns for another look-see of the cloud-shrouded moon - this time from on high. Read more

	January 26, 2010 NASA Airborne Radar Studies Haiti Earthquake Faults NASA has added a series of overflights of quake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America. Read more

	January 26, 2010 NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Starts a New Chapter After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. Read more

	January 26, 2010 Curriculum Vitae - Spirit, Mars Exploration Rover A Professional Goal: To investigate the historical geology and climate of Mars, but would like to do less travel than in the past Read more

	January 25, 2010 Groovy Hills Rising from Titan Surface Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009. Read more

	January 25, 2010 NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. Read more

	January 21, 2010 January Listening Period Ends with No Word from Phoenix Mars Lander NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed all 30 relay overflights of the Phoenix landing site that were scheduled for Jan. 18 to 21, and heard nothing from the lander. Read more

	January 21, 2010 Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. Read more

	January 20, 2010 Spirit Switches to Backward Drives The rover team has begun driving Spirit backward as next technique for attempting to extricate the rover from the sand trap where it is embedded. Read more

	January 20, 2010 Study Links Spring Ozone Over North America With Emissions Abroad A new study links ozone levels above western North America in springtime to pollution from abroad. JPL lidar and balloon data contributed to the findings. Read more

	January 20, 2010 JPL Scientist Receives American Meteorological Society Honor JPL research scientist Tim Liu has been honored by the American Meteorological Society for his space-based research on Earth's climate. Read more

	January 20, 2010 Public Invited To Pick Pixels on Mars Scientists Taking Suggestions on Where to Image the Red Planet Using NASA Satellite Read more

	January 20, 2010 NASA Orbiter Listening for Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed 11 overflights, listening for the Phoenix Mars Lander on Jan. 19 and 20, without hearing anything from the lander. Read more

	January 18, 2010 NASA's ASTER Instrument Observes Haiti Quake Aftermath Landslides from the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake are clearly visible in a new simulated natural-color image from an instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft. Read more

	January 15, 2010 JPL Scientist Honored by President Obama With Early Career Award JPL Oceanographer Josh Willis was among 100 outstanding early career scientists honored by President Obama Jan. 13 at the White House. Read more

	January 14, 2010 Resumed Mars Orbiter Observations Yield Stunning Views Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This view shows dunes inside a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin in Mars' southern hemisphere. Read more

	January 14, 2010 Infrared Hunt Begins: WISE Starts All-Sky Survey NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its survey of the infrared sky today. Read more

	January 14, 2010 Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn are still building upon today. Read more

	January 14, 2010 Fault Responsible for Haiti Quake Slices Island's Topography The fault responsible for the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti is visible in images created using NASA radar topography data acquired in 2000. Read more

	January 13, 2010 Just a Few More Approaches to Try for Extrication The list of remaining maneuvers being considered for extricating Spirit is becoming shorter. Read more

	January 12, 2010 NASA's New Museum Grant Allies will make the Universe Accessible Interactive museum exhibits about climate change, Earth science, and missions beyond Earth are among the projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding. Read more

	January 12, 2010 Is Antarctica Melting? If all Antarctica's ice melted, global sea level would rise 200 feet. So how is this frozen continent faring in our warming world? Read more

	January 12, 2010 Asteroid To Fly By Earth Wednesday Is a Natural Asteroid 2010 AL30 will fly safely past Earth on Jan. 13. There are those who say it may be a used rocket stage. Not so fast says NASA's Near-Earth Object Office. Read more

	January 11, 2010 Cassini Returns to Southern Hemisphere of Titan NASA'S Cassini spacecraft will return to Titan's southern hemisphere on a flyby tomorrow, Jan. 12, plunging to within about 1,050 kilometers (about 670 miles) of the hazy moon's surface. Read more

	January 11, 2010 NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008. Read more

	January 11, 2010 As The Crust Turns: Cassini Data Show Enceladus in Motion Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus explain the quirky behavior of the moon's south polar region. Read more

	January 11, 2010 Martian Landform Observations Fill Special Journal Issue Martian landforms shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces are analyzed in 21 journal reports based on data from a camera orbiting Mars. Read more

	January 6, 2010 NASA's WISE Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light. Read more

	January 6, 2010 Latest Astronomy Conference Update Thousands of astronomers have amassed at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington. Read more

	January 6, 2010 Planets Can Form Around Hefty Stars NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is helping scientists find evidence for planets around massive stars. Read more

	January 5, 2010 JPL Mourns Passing of Former Director Lew Allen Jr. A former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lew Allen Jr., passed away Monday night, Jan. 4, at the age of 84, in Potomac Falls, Va. Read more

	January 5, 2010 Galaxy Exposes Its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from Earth. Read more

	January 5, 2010 Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a Close For almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own eyes as it seemed to disappear into the night sky. Read more

	January 4, 2010 NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five Exoplanets NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. Read more