News Articles for 2007

	December 27, 2007 Countdown to Launch of Jet Propulsion Lab Rose Parade Float Volunteers from JPL are helping with the finishing touches on the Lab's Rose Parade float saluting 50 Years of Space Exploration. Read more

	December 25, 2007 Happy Holidays Happy holidays, courtesy of the Cassini-Huygens Project Team studying Saturn. Read more

	December 22, 2007 Cassini Headed South on Titan Cassini successfully completed its most recent Titan flyby on Dec. 20, 2007, and data are currently being analyzed. Read more

	December 20, 2007 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive stars. Read more

	December 18, 2007 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Interplanetary Cruise Phase NASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun the interplanetary cruise phase of its 8-year, 3-billion mile journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. Read more

	December 18, 2007 Mars: Closest Approach 2007 Now playing online -- a new Martian movie showing the planet rotating. The movie was made from four images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, built and designed by JPL. Read more

	December 17, 2007 Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting another galaxy, according to new results from NASA telescopes, including Spitzer. Read more

	December 17, 2007 NASA Climate Change 'Peacemakers' Aided Nobel Effort NASA's Earth scientists watched with pride when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations panel that spent two decades assessing Earth's changing climate. Read more

	December 13, 2007 NASA Sends Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2 NASA has approved the retargeting of the Epoxi mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010. Read more

	December 12, 2007 Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still under construction. Read more

	December 12, 2007 NASA Satellites Help Lift Cloud of Uncertainty on Climate Change New findings from NASA's CloudSat and other Earth observing satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on clouds. Read more

	December 12, 2007 Cassini Captures Best View Yet of Saturn's Ring Current Scientists have gotten their best "look" ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn’s giant magnetic field. Read more

	December 12, 2007 Planetary Scientists Close in on Saturn's Elusive Rotation Deep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven complicated, but thanks to new Cassini results, European scientists have taken an important step forward. Read more

	December 11, 2007 Amazing Grace Team Receives Prestigious Award A mission that has changed the way we study Earth's gravitational forces has been recognized with a prestigious award for helping scientists better understand our home planet. Read more

	December 11, 2007 Mars Orbiter Examines 'Lace' and 'Lizard Skin' Terrain SAN FRANCISCO - Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is helping scientists learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, as well as more familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet. Read more

	December 11, 2007 New NASA Mission to Reveal Moon's Internal Structure and Evolution The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission, will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail. Read more

	December 10, 2007 Mars Rover Investigates Signs of Steamy Martian Past SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers using NASA's twin Mars rovers are sorting out two possible origins for one of Spirit's most important discoveries, while also getting Spirit to a favorable spot for surviving the next Martian winter. Read more

	December 10, 2007 Voyager 2 Proves Solar System is Squashed NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin, Voyager 1, into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars. Read more

	December 6, 2007 Images of Saturn's Small Moons Tell the Story of Their Origins Imaging scientists on NASA's Cassini mission are telling a tale of how the small moons orbiting near the outer rings of Saturn came to be Read more

	December 6, 2007 Cassini Flies by Titan's South Pole The Cassini spacecraft performed a southern hemisphere pass of Titan's surface on Dec. 5. Read more

	December 6, 2007 James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Gets Vision Test A model of the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument, currently being co-developed by JPL, will be tested in England to ensure the final instrument can see infrared light. Read more

	December 5, 2007 NASA Mega-Telescope Gears Up to Study Cosmos NASA has selected three teams of scientists to begin studying disks of dust around nearby stars starting in February 2008, using the Keck Interferometer in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Read more

	December 5, 2007 Cassini Team Recruits Next Generation of Scientists NASA's Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn has some young new participants. A 10th-grade student in Delaware, a high school senior in California, and an 8th-grade American student in France are the winners of this year's Cassini Scientist-for-a-Day contest. Read more

	November 30, 2007 Ulysses Begins North Polar Pass Ulysses, a joint NASA/European Space Agency mission, has begun its third pass over the sun's north polar region. Read more

	November 30, 2007 Students Hit High Note in JPL Invention Challenge JPL held its 10th annual Invention Challenge, an engineering and science contest for students and JPL employees, on Friday, Nov. 30. Read more

	November 29, 2007 Keep Track of New Worlds: PlanetQuest 2.0 More than 260 planets have already been discovered orbiting other stars, and new ones are found almost every month Read more

	November 29, 2007 Embryonic Star Captured With Jets Flaring A developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	November 28, 2007 NASA Scientist Confirms Light Show on Venus Venus is a hellish place of high temperatures and crushing air pressure. Read more

	November 28, 2007 Youthful Star Sprouts Planets Early A stellar prodigy has been spotted about 450 light-years away in a system called UX Tau A by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	November 27, 2007 NASA Evaluates Compact Synthetic Aperture Radar NASA is evaluating a compact L-Band synthetic aperture radar for potential use on unmanned aircraft. Read more

	November 20, 2007 Astronomers Say Moons Like Ours Are Uncommon The next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might count yourself lucky. Read more

	November 20, 2007 Spotlight on Titan During Recent Cassini Flyby Saturn's moon Titan was backlit by the sun during Cassini's flyby on Nov. 19. Scientists will use data from the flyby to study the density of Titan's atmosphere. Read more

	November 15, 2007 Hubble Zooms in on Heart of Mystery Comet Comet 17P/Holmes, now visible in the night skies, has been captured by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Read more

	November 15, 2007 Planets Forming in Pleiades Star Cluster Rocky planets might have formed or might still be forming around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, according to evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a ground-based telescope. Read more

	November 14, 2007 Watching Galaxies Grow Old Gracefully In the early 1900s, Edwin Hubble made the startling discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone. Read more

	November 14, 2007 Tracking Asteroid Apophis Scientists from NASA/JPL, Caltech, and Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have released results of radar observations of asteroid Apophis, and an in-depth analysis of its motion. The research can affect how and when scientists measure, predict or consider modifying the asteroid's motion. Read more

	November 13, 2007 NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face PASADENA, Calif. -- A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. Read more

	November 13, 2007 Rosetta Swings Past Earth The Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past Earth at 12:57 p.m. Pacific Time today, picking up speed for its planned 2014 rendezvous with a comet. JPL manages NASA's contribution to the European Space Agency's 3.3-ton comet chaser. Read more

	November 9, 2007 NASA Satellite Captures Witch Fire's Aftermath The extent of San Diego's Witch fire, the most destructive of the recent wildfires in Southern California, is depicted in this new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer. (Nov. 8) Read more

	November 8, 2007 Bubbly Little Star In this processed Spitzer Space Telescope image, baby star HH 46/47 can be seen blowing two massive "bubbles." The star is 1,140 light-years away from Earth. Read more

	November 8, 2007 Spitzer Spies a Stellar Bubble Blower A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas to make bubbles in outer space. Read more

	November 7, 2007 La Nina Persists The tropical Pacific Ocean remains in the grips of a cool La Nina, as shown by new data of sea-level heights from mid-October of 2007, collected by the U.S-French Jason altimetric satellite Read more

	November 6, 2007 Scientists Discover Record Fifth Planet Orbiting Nearby Star Astronomers have announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system. Read more

	November 1, 2007 Mars Express Probes Red Planet's Unusual Deposits The radar system on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has uncovered new details about some of the most mysterious deposits on Mars: the Medusae Fossae Formation. Read more

	November 1, 2007 NASA Data May Help Improve Estimates of a Hurricane's Punch As Tropical Storm Noel churns off Florida's east coast, NASA and university scientists have announced they have developed a promising new technique for estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones from space. Read more

	October 31, 2007 NASA Selects Partnerships to Advance Key Technologies JPL will help advance key technologies to meet critical needs for NASA's mission, through several newly-announced partnerships selected by NASA. Read more

	October 30, 2007 Phoenix:Tasks En Route to Mars Include Course Tweak, Gear Checks NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, launched on Aug. 4 and headed to Mars, fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time. Read more

	October 30, 2007 Dancing with the Stars Takes on a Whole New Twist Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new picture taken by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Read more

	October 30, 2007 JPL's Role in the Constellation JPL's contribution to NASA's Constellation Program includes leading specific robotic surface mobility development. One example is the Athlete mobility system. Read more

	October 30, 2007 Catch a Comet - No Telescope Required This week there is a newly visible comet in the sky and it can be seen with the unaided eye! Read more

	October 29, 2007 IT Came From Vesta Their infiltration began - like so many other infiltrations - with a tell-tale contrail of smoke and flame creating a supersonic slash across the afternoon sky. But this time they would not go unnoticed. Read more

	October 29, 2007 Opportunity Turns Two - in Mars Years NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity marks its second Martian anniversary with a new image from Victoria Crater. On Earth, the rover is almost four years old, because one Martian year equals 687 Earth days. Read more

	October 25, 2007 Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found! Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away. Read more

	October 24, 2007 First Known Belt of Moonlets in Saturn's Rings A narrow belt harboring moonlets discovered in Saturn's outmost ring is likely the result of a larger moon shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, according to a new study led by Cassini scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more

	October 23, 2007 NASA Views Southern California Fires and Winds With a click of the mouse button, the public can see NASA views from space, including some at Google Earth, of Southern California's raging wildfires and the ferocious Santa Ana winds that are driving them. Read more

	October 23, 2007 You, Too, Can Be a Scientist for a Day The Ph.D. can wait for a few years! Students can have the fun of being a NASA scientist exploring the universe even before they've finished secondary school by participating in the Cassini Scientist-for-a-Day contest. Read more

	October 22, 2007 To Catch a Galactic Thief On Earth, thieves steal everything from diamonds to art to bags full of money. In space, gas - fuel for making stars - is a commodity worth the price of theft. Read more

	October 19, 2007 Ulysses Catches Record for Catching Comets by Their Tails When it was launched 17 years ago, scientists and mission engineers for the Ulysses project knew they should expect, well, the unexpected. Read more

	October 19, 2007 Spectrometer on NASA Orbiter Maps Minerals at Possible Landing Sites The mineral-mapping instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been examining candidate landing sites for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a rover to be launched in 2009. Read more

	October 15, 2007 NASA Extends Operations for its Long-Lived Mars Rovers NASA is extending, for a fifth time, the activities of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Read more

	October 11, 2007 JPL Presents Small Business Workshops in San Diego Small businesses are invited to a workshop hosted by JPL on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego's Mission Valley. Read more

	October 11, 2007 Cassini Mission to Saturn Celebrates 10 Years Since Launch Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention. Read more

	October 11, 2007 Cassini Provides New Views of Titan's Land of Lakes and Seas Newly assembled radar images from the Cassini spacecraft provide the best view of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, while a new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes. Read more

	October 10, 2007 NASA Orbiter Provides Color Views of Mars Landing Site Candidates Less than a year since beginning the prime science phase of its mission, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has passed a mission-success milestone for the amount of data returned. Read more

	October 10, 2007 Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's 'tiger stripe' fractures. Read more

	October 9, 2007 Dawn Mission Status: Spacecraft Tests Ion Engine NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn's 8-year, 4.9 billion-kilometer journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. Read more

	October 9, 2007 Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black Holes The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. Read more

	October 9, 2007 Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Sees Changes in Jupiter System The New Horizons team presents its latest and most detailed analyses of Jupiter data today at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Orlando, Fla., and in the Oct. 12 issue of the journal Science. Read more

	October 8, 2007 Cassini is on the Trail of a Runaway Mystery NASA scientists are on the trail of Iapetus' mysterious dark side, which seems to be home to a bizarre "runaway" process that is transporting vaporized water ice from the dark areas to the white areas of the Saturnian moon. Read more

	October 4, 2007 Cassini Headed South on Recent Titan Flyby During the Oct. 2, 2007, Titan flyby, Cassini's radar instrument imaged the surface. Read more

	October 4, 2007 Astronomers Map Itsy Bitsy Galaxy Halfway Across Universe An international team of scientists has used a trick of nature to measure a tiny galaxy halfway across the universe. Read more

	October 3, 2007 Google Sky Sees Many Wavelengths New "far out" views of the distant universe from Spitzer, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and other telescopes were released to Google Sky. Peter Eisenhardt and Leonidas Moustakas of JPL helped capture some of the images. Read more

	October 3, 2007 Star System 'Just Right' for Building an Earth An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	October 2, 2007 First Contact: Sputnik To say the least, it was incredible. The news relayed by the voice on the other end of the phone line hit the president of the San Gabriel Valley Radio Club like a blow to the head. Read more

	October 1, 2007 NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low in 2007 A new NASA-led study found a 23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters. Read more

	October 1, 2007 Postcard From Mars NASA's Opportunity rover captured this view of Victoria Crater shortly after reaching the crater in September 2006. Last week, Opportunity reached its science team's first destination inside the crater. Read more

	September 27, 2007 NASA'S Dawn Spacecraft Enroute to Shed Light on Asteroid Belt NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off Thursday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Read more

	September 27, 2007 Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Launched CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Dawn spacecraft began its 3 billion kilometer (1.7 billion mile) journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids Thursday at 7:34 a.m. Eastern Time (4:34 a.m. Pacific Time). Read more

	September 26, 2007 Opportunity Reaches First Target Inside Crater NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached its science team's first destination for the rover inside Victoria Crater, information received from Mars late Tuesday confirms. Read more

	September 25, 2007 NASA Spacecraft Is a 'Go' for Asteroid Belt CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Sept. 27 liftoff from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Dawn mission. Read more

	September 25, 2007 Women's Hall of Fame Pick Spitzer Astronomer National Women's Hall of Fame has selected a Spitzer Space Telescope astronomer to join its ranks. Judith Pipher of the University of Rochester, N.Y., helped develop Spitzer's infrared array camera, which continues to unveil the cosmos. Read more

	September 24, 2007 Dawn Launch Pushed Back The launch of the Dawn spacecraft, whose mission will take it to the asteroid belt, has been delayed 24 hours to Sept. 27. Weather prevented technicians from completing the loading of fuel on the Delta rocket's second stage. Read more

	September 24, 2007 Mars Instrument Checks Recent Gully Deposit A spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter checked to see whether a fresh deposit of bright material in a gully on Mars contained mineral evidence of liquid water carrying the material. The examination found no sign that liquid water played a role. Read more

	September 21, 2007 NASA Restarts Telescope Mission to Detect Black Holes NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. Read more

	September 21, 2007 NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Cave Skylights on Mars NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano Read more

	September 20, 2007 NASA Orbiter Provides Insights About Mars Water and Climate NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history. Read more

	September 18, 2007 A Warm South Pole? Yes, on Neptune! An international team of astronomers has discovered that Neptune's south pole is much hotter than the rest of the planet. Read more

	September 18, 2007 Odyssey Returning to Service After Taking Precaution The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter is returning the healthy spacecraft to usual activities this week after a precautionary status of reduced activity that the orbiter entered on Sept. 14. Read more

	September 18, 2007 Scientists Conduct First Global Study of a Poisonous Gas in Earth's Atmosphere A JPL scientist has participated in the first-ever study of the global distribution of phosgene, a poisonous gas present in small quantities in Earth's atmosphere. The information will be useful for assessing progress in controlling chemicals that destroy Earth's protective ozone layer. Read more

	September 13, 2007 Rover Status Report: Opportunity Begins Sustained Exploration Inside Crater NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity finished the last step of a test in-and-out maneuver checking wheel slippage at the rim of Victoria Crater today. Read more

	September 13, 2007 A Star-Formation Neighbor While perhaps not quite as well known as its star-formation cousin Orion, the Corona Australis region (containing, at its heart, the Coronet cluster) is one of the nearest and most active regions of ongoing star formation. Read more

	September 13, 2007 Wanted: Ambassadors to the Stars NASA's Solar System Ambassadors program is looking for volunteer space enthusiasts. Read more

	September 13, 2007 The Prius of Space What if you need to motor somewhere three billion-plus miles off the beaten path - somewhere where neither regular nor premium unleaded have so far feared to tread? Read more

	September 13, 2007 NASA Watches Ozone Layer Amid Montreal Protocol's Success NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer, Sept. 23 to 26 in Athens, Greece. Read more

	September 12, 2007 Saturn's Moon Iapetus Is the Yin-and-Yang of the Solar System Scientists on the Cassini mission to Saturn are poring through hundreds of images returned from the Sept. 10 flyby of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. Read more

	September 12, 2007 Stars Go Out in Style New snapshots from space illustrate the colorful evolution of dying sun-like stars. The images were captured by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Read more

	September 11, 2007 Rover Status Report: Opportunity Takes a Dip Into Victoria Crater Today, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered Victoria Crater for the first time. Read more

	September 11, 2007 Cassini Gets Close-Up Views of Saturn's Moon Iapetus Cassini completed its closest flyby of the odd moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007. Read more

	September 11, 2007 Dawn One Step Away From Asteroid Belt Trip The Dawn spacecraft completed the 25-kilometer (15-mile) journey from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to Pad-17B of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:10 a.m. EDT today. Read more

	September 7, 2007 Mars Rovers Survive Dust Storms, Ready for Next Objectives Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Read more

	September 7, 2007 Mars-Bound Phoenix Returns First Photo from Trip NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft, launched Aug. 4, is testing its hardware and software as it flies to Mars. A camera mounted on the craft's robotic arm took this test photo showing the scoop at the end of the arm, verifying that the camera works. Read more

	September 6, 2007 NASA Space Telescopes Find 'Lego-Block' Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe. Read more

	September 5, 2007 Cassini Prepares to Fly by Walnut-Shaped Moon Cassini will make its only close flyby of Saturn's odd, two-toned, walnut-shaped moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, at about 1,640 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the surface. Read more

	September 5, 2007 Voyager at 30: Looking Beyond and Within The twin spacecraft have become a fixture of pop culture, inspiring novels and playing a central role in television shows, music videos, songs and movies from the 1980s and 1990s. Read more

	September 5, 2007 Henriette Set for Second Mexican Landfall Hurricane Henriette sloshes into the Gulf of California's warm waters in this Sept. 5 image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite. The Category One storm is forecast to make landfall along the coast of mainland Mexico later today, and could bring some rain to the U.S. Southwest. Read more

	September 4, 2007 Phoenix Mars Lander Status Report: Radar and Other Gear Pass Checkouts Two crucial tools for a successful landing of America's latest mission to Mars, the radar and UHF radio on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, have passed in-flight checkouts. Read more

	September 4, 2007 Cassini Completes Titan Flyby, Prepares for Iapetus Cassini successfully flew by Titan on Aug. 31, 2007, imaging the Huygens probe landing site. This flyby placed Cassini on a course to conduct the closest flyby of the odd moon Iapetus that it will perform during the entire mission. Read more

	September 4, 2007 Felix the Cat. (5) Claws at Central America Hurricane Felix scratches at Nicaragua's coast in this Sept. 4 image from NASA's QuikScat satellite. The image was acquired just 45 minutes before Felix hissed ashore as a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 258 kilometers (160 miles) per hour. White arrows showing wind direction are superimposed on color images of wind speed. Read more

	August 29, 2007 Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' On Young Star System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Read more

	August 29, 2007 Dark Pit on Mars' Arsia Mons, with Sunlit Wall The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts through lava flow on the flank of the Arsia Mons volcano. Read more

	August 28, 2007 Fasten Your Seat Belts, Turbulence Ahead - Lessons From Titan Ever spilled your drink on an airline due to turbulence? Researchers are finding new ways to understand the phenomenon - both in Earth's atmosphere and in that of Saturn's moon, Titan, aided by Huygens probe data. Read more

	August 27, 2007 Up, Up and Away -- To Venus Scientists hope to learn more about climate changes here on Earth by studying Venus. Read more

	August 24, 2007 Mars Exploration Rover Status Report: Rovers Resume Driving After six weeks of hunkering down during raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving. Read more

	August 24, 2007 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Status Report: Camera Concern Resolved; More Than 3,000 Images Returned Diagnostic tests and months of stable, successful operation have resolved concerns raised early this year about long-term prospects for the powerful telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	August 24, 2007 Spitzer Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Celestial Fireworks A newly expanded image of the Helix nebula lends a festive touch to the fourth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	August 23, 2007 Hubble Camera Snags Rare View of Uranus Rings A rare image of the ring system of the planet Uranus has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, using the onboard JPL-built and designed Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Read more

	August 22, 2007 Dean Moves Over Central Mexico Tropical storm Dean moves into southern and central Mexico in this August 22 image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite. While the storm is beginning to disintegrate, Dean is still expected to produce heavy rainfall. Read more

	August 21, 2007 A Weakened Dean Heads Into the Gulf of Mexico After barrelling through Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a weakened Hurricane Dean emerges into the Gulf of Mexico in this latest image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite. Dean is expected to regain some strength before making landfall again in central Mexico. Read more

	August 20, 2007 Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark Thirty Years of Flight NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment. Read more

	August 20, 2007 Voyager's Many Discoveries From hurricane-like storms at Jupiter to the final frontier of the solar system, the twin Voyager spacecraft have returned a wealth of data during their 30-year journey. Read more

	August 20, 2007 A Mean Dean Takes Aim on Mexico's Yucatan Hurricane Dean, expected to become a Category Five storm with maximum sustained winds of at least 135 knots (155 miles per hour), steams toward a projected landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. In this Aug. 20 NASA QuikScat image, white arrows showing wind direction are superimposed on color images of wind speed. Read more

	August 15, 2007 Speeding-Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. Read more

	August 15, 2007 Erin Rarin' To Soak Texas Tropical Storm Erin lurks off the Texas coast in this August 15 image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite. Erin is forecast to drench the Texas coast with three to five inches of rain. Read more

	August 10, 2007 NASA's Mars-Bound Phoenix Adjusts Course Successfully NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander today accomplished the first and largest of six course corrections planned during the spacecraft's flight from Earth to Mars. Read more

	August 8, 2007 California Fire Seen by JPL Instrument The Zaca fire continued to burn in the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara, Calif., as seen in this image taken on Aug. 7. The view was captured by a JPL instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. Read more

	August 7, 2007 Martian Skies Brighten Slightly Slight clearing of still-dusty Martian skies has improved the energy situation for both Spirit and Opportunity, allowing controllers to increase the rovers' science observations. Read more

	August 6, 2007 NASA'S Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed. Read more

	August 6, 2007 New Study Links Sunspot Activity, Heavy Rains in East Africa A new study co-authored by a JPL researcher shows that sunspot cycles can be used to predict heavy rains, flooding and subsequent outbreaks of disease in East Africa. Read more

	August 4, 2007 NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region of Mars NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region. Read more

	August 2, 2007 Cassini Finds Possible Origin of One of Saturn's Rings Cassini scientists may have identified the source of one of Saturn's more mysterious rings. Read more

	August 2, 2007 Next Departure for Mars Stands Ready to Fly A NASA robotic explorer equipped to dig up and analyze icy soil on Mars sits atop a 13-story tall stack of rocket engines prepared for liftoff before sunup on Saturday. Read more

	July 31, 2007 Mars Exploration Rover Status Report: Concern Increasing About Opportunity Rover engineers are growing increasingly concerned about the temperature of vital electronics on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity while the rover stays nearly inactive due to a series of dust storms that has lasted for more than a month. Read more

	July 31, 2007 NASA Postpones Phoenix Launch Friday's launch of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been postponed 24 hours. Read more

	July 26, 2007 Mars Exploration Rover Status Report: Spirit Sees Dustier Sky As of Thursday, July 26, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity are both enduring levels of reduced power supply. The rovers can survive at these levels, but NASA continues to sharply restrict their activities. Read more

	July 25, 2007 New NASA AIRS Data to Aid Weather, Climate Research Newly available data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua spacecraft are providing better tools for climate scientists. Read more

	July 25, 2007 New Tool Uses NASA Data To Show Changes in Earth's Landscape A new tool from the U.S. Geological Survey uses NASA satellite data to depict changes to Earth's surface over the past 30 years. Read more

	July 24, 2007 Spitzer Finds Evidence for Planets with Four Parents How many stars does it take to "raise" a planet? New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that planets might be forming in systems with as many as four stars. Read more

	July 24, 2007 Probing Titan's Surface West of Huygens Site NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed a successful flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on July 19. Read more

	July 20, 2007 NASA Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust Storms Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge. Read more

	July 19, 2007 Saturn Turns 60 Scientists have recently discovered that the planet Saturn is turning 60 - not years, but moons. Read more

	July 18, 2007 Mars Orbiter Sends Crater Postcard An impact crater takes center stage in this view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Light-toned, finely layered material makes up the crater wall. Read more

	July 17, 2007 Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. Read more

	July 13, 2007 JPL Part of Space Exploration 50th Anniversary Event Before October 1957, space flight was a thing of fantasy. Today we are experienced space explorers with unlimited voyages to undertake. Read more

	July 11, 2007 NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet A scorching-hot gas planet beyond our solar system is steaming up with water vapor, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	July 9, 2007 NASA Readies Mars Lander for August Launch to Icy Site NASA's next Mars mission will look beneath a frigid arctic landscape for conditions favorable to past or present life. Read more

	July 7, 2007 NASA Mission to Asteroid Belt Rescheduled for September Launch The launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, a mission that will explore the two largest objects in the asteroid belt in an effort to answer questions about the formation of our solar system, has been rescheduled to September. Read more

	July 6, 2007 Dawn Launch Postponed The Dawn spacecraft launch has been postponed until no earlier than Sunday, July 15. Read more

	July 4, 2007 NASA Finds Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion. Read more

	July 3, 2007 Cassini Completes Tethys and Titan Flybys This week, Cassini successfully completed flybys of Saturn's moons Tethys (June 27) and Titan (June 29). Read more

	July 3, 2007 Dust Delays Mars Crater Entry A giant dust storm brewing for more than a week on Mars has become worse and is affecting surface operations of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Read more

	July 3, 2007 Two Comet Missions Get Second Life Stardust and Deep Impact have new assignments: re-visit the site of a previous smashing comet encounter, fly by another comet, and study extrasolar planets. Read more

	July 2, 2007 Satellite Spots Location of Revere's Historic Ride Lexington and Concord, Mass., two cities that played key roles in America's Revolutionary War, are imaged in this image by a JPL instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. Read more

	June 28, 2007 NASA Mars Rover Ready For Descent Into Crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. Read more

	June 28, 2007 JPL Instrument Images Lake Tahoe Fire The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer captured the Lake Tahoe, Calif., fire from space June 27. Burned areas are in gray. Read more

	June 27, 2007 NASA To Study Underexplored Earth Atmospheric Region JPL will participate in a NASA summer study of a largely unexplored region of Earth's atmosphere that has implications for climate change and atmospheric ozone. Read more

	June 21, 2007 NASA Prepares for Performing New Science on the Moon NASA has selected proposals, including two from JPL, for future lunar science activities. Read more

	June 21, 2007 Test Drive in Enlarged Mars Yard A mobility-testing prototype for the rover that NASA will launch to Mars in 2009 climbs over a rock during a June 19, 2007, event to mark the opening of a newly expanded Mars Yard at JPL. Read more

	June 21, 2007 Cassini Sees the Sun Set and Rise on Titan Cassini completed a successful flyby of Titan on June 13, 2007. Scientists took advantage of a rare geometry to take detailed measurements of the atmosphere by imaging the sun as it passes behind Titan and its thick, banded atmosphere. Read more

	June 20, 2007 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of Stars The Galaxy Evolution Explorer's ultraviolet eyes have captured a globular star cluster, called NGC 362, in our own Milky Way galaxy. Read more

	June 20, 2007 Hubble Captures Views of Dawn's Destination These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive bodies in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. The Dawn mission, scheduled to launch this summer, will orbit both asteroid belt residents. Read more

	June 19, 2007 NASA/European Space Agency Sign for JPL-Managed Projects JPL manages the U.S. portion of projects covered in new NASA-European Space Agency agreements James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, and LISA Pathfinder mission's Disturbance Reduction System Package. JPL is a partner on the full LISA mission. Read more

	June 15, 2007 Extreme Planet Takes Its Toll on Rovers Like Sun Belt retirees who complain about cold weather, NASA's Mars rovers are becoming less tolerant of temperature changes with age. Read more

	June 14, 2007 Cassini Finds Saturn Moons are Active Saturn's moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space, according to data from the Cassini mission to Saturn. Read more

	June 13, 2007 Spitzer Searches for the Origins of Life Astronomers suspect the early Earth was a very harsh place. Temperatures were extreme, and the planet was constantly bombarded by cosmic debris. Read more

	June 11, 2007 NASA Scientist Finds a New Way to the Center of the Earth A new NASA study proposes a novel technique to pinpoint more precisely the location of Earth's center of mass and how it moves through space. Read more

	June 7, 2007 Rare Cyclone Sweeps Arabian Sea NASA's QuikScat captured Tropical Cyclone Gonu, the strongest such storm to hit the Arabian Peninsula since record-keeping began in 1945. White arrows show wind direction; colors denote wind speeds. Read more

	June 7, 2007 Meet the 10 Most Intriguing Stars of 2007 They don't have official fan clubs, but some stars in the sky have a huge following among astronomers. Meet "2007'S 10 Most Intriguing Stars" in a new slide show. Read more

	June 6, 2007 NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and Strokes NASA space technology is helping doctors diagnose and monitor treatments for hardening of the arteries in its early stages, before it causes heart attacks and strokes. Read more

	June 4, 2007 M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from Spitzer, Hubble and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Read more

	June 4, 2007 High-Resolution Images from Mars Orbiter Available Online Explore hundreds of sweeping images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with new user-friendly features at the Web site of the mission's high-resolution camera. Read more

	May 31, 2007 Satellites Track Human Exposure to Fine Particle Pollution The unique abilities of NASA instruments to track tiny particles of air pollution may aid public health efforts. Read more

	May 31, 2007 Neon Saturn The Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's glow, represented in brilliant shades of electric blue, sapphire and mint green, while the planet's shadow casts a wide net on the rings. Read more

	May 30, 2007 NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy. Read more

	May 29, 2007 Future Mission to Mars The 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, the mammoth grandchild of the 1997 Sojourner rover, is less than one year from the assembly, test and launch operations phase. Read more

	May 29, 2007 Cassini Views Titan from Bottom to Top The Cassini spacecraft studied the properties of Titan's atmosphere during the May 28, 2007, flyby. The spacecraft also imaged a bright surface feature on Titan named Dilmun. Read more

	May 29, 2007 Spitzer Nets Thousands of Galaxies in a Giant Cluster NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has bagged more than a thousand previously unknown dwarf galaxies in a giant cluster of galaxies. Read more

	May 23, 2007 JPL Instrument Maps Carbon Dioxide From Space JPL's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft is being used by scientists to observe atmospheric carbon dioxide. This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide in the troposphere (about eight kilometers, or five miles, above Earth). Read more

	May 23, 2007 Cassini Radar Images Sea, Islands and Mountains During Cassini's most recent flyby of Titan on May 12, 2007, the radar instrument imaged a large sea and its coastline, with numerous island groups and mountains. This image appears to show a portion of a larger sea spotted previously near Titan's north pole. Read more

	May 22, 2007 Cassini 'Cat Scan' Maps Clumps in Saturn's Rings Saturn's largest and most densely packed ring is composed of tightly packed clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	May 21, 2007 Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now. Read more

	May 18, 2007 JPL Welcomes Public to Open House This Weekend Robots, spacecraft models, 3D-images and more. Take a journey to the planets and beyond at JPL's Open House, Sat. and Sun., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Scientists and engineers will be here to answer your questions. Admission is free. Read more

	May 17, 2007 Baby Stars Hatching in Orion's Head A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of Orion, the famous hunter constellation visible from northern hemispheres during winter nights. Read more

	May 16, 2007 Frictional Heating Explains Plumes on Enceladus Rubbing your hands together on a cold day generates a bit of heat, and the same process of frictional heating may be what powers the geysers jetting out from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Read more

	May 15, 2007 JPL to Hold Small Business Symposium in Nation's Capital NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will host the 10th Annual Space Science Symposium for Small Business on June 4, 2007, at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town Hotel in Alexandria, Va. Read more

	May 15, 2007 NASA Finds Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. Read more

	May 14, 2007 Cudahy, Glendale Schools Join Unique Partnership With NASA NASA has announced that Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, Glendale, Calif.; and Ellen Ochoa Learning Center, Cudahy, Calif., have been selected to begin a special three-year partnership with the space agency as NASA Explorer Schools. Read more

	May 14, 2007 Cassini To Confirm if 'Caspian Sea' is Liquid-Filled Cassini successfully completed a flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on May 12, 2007. Due to the recent discovery of probable large seas on Titan, Cassini's quick-thinking team repointed the radar instrument south in advance of the encounter, flying over a large, expansive dark area dubbed the "Caspian Sea." Read more

	May 10, 2007 Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have concluded that the SIM PlanetQuest mission would be able to detect an Earth-like planet around 40 Eridani, a star familiar to "Star Trek" fans as the location of planet Vulcan. Read more

	May 10, 2007 Recycled Dwarf Galaxies Have 'Missing Mass' Astronomers have found that dwarf galaxies made of debris from colliding galaxies are surprisingly massive. This might reveal much previously undetected "missing mass." Images from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and Spitzer Space Telescopes formed a foundation for the research. Read more

	May 10, 2007 CloudSat Tracks Atlantic Hurricane Season's First Named 2007 Storm Two NASA satellites flew over the center of then Subtropical Storm Andrea Wednesday, May 9, off the U.S. southeast coast. In the CloudSat image (bottom), brighter colors indicate more water in the clouds. Read more

	May 10, 2007 Organic Brewery Found High in Titan's Atmosphere Tholins, complex organic molecules fundamental to prebiotic chemistry, are apparently forming at a much higher altitude, and in different ways than expected, in Titan’s atmosphere. These results appear in this week’s issue of the journal Science. Read more

	May 9, 2007 NASA Finds Extremely Hot Planet, Makes First Exoplanet Weather Map Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds. Read more

	May 8, 2007 NASA's Next Mars Spacecraft Crosses the Mississippi A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carried NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft Monday, May 7, from Colorado to Florida, where Phoenix will start a much longer trip in August. Read more

	May 8, 2007 Cassini Finds that Storms Power Saturn's Jet Streams New Cassini research suggests eddies, or giant rotating storms, are the "engine" powering Saturn's jet stream winds. Saturn's jet stream winds. Read more

	May 7, 2007 Latest Group of Solar System Ambassadors Ready for Liftoff The newest bunch of space enthusiasts in NASA's Solar System Ambassadors Program is hard at work, planning events to educate various communities on their one true passion: space. Read more

	May 4, 2007 Weather and Climate Watcher Celebrates Five Years in Orbit JPL's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft has significantly advanced weather forecasting and is measuring many of the key atmospheric gases that affect our climate. Read more

	May 3, 2007 NASA's Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Volcanic Explosion NASA's Mars Rover Spirit has found evidence of an ancient volcanic explosion. Evidence includes a bomb sag, a rock buried in layers at a feature called Home Plate. Read more

	May 3, 2007 NASA Antenna Cuts Mercury to Core, Solves 30 Year Mystery Researchers working with high-precision planetary radars, including the Goldstone Solar System Radar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have discovered strong evidence that the planet Mercury has a molten core. Read more

	May 2, 2007 Sharp Views Show Ground Ice on Mars Is Patchy and Variable Using observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, scientists have discovered that water ice lies at variable depths over small-scale patches on Mars. Read more

	May 2, 2007 Volcanic Eruptions in Kamchatka One of the most volcanically active regions of the world is the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, Russia. JPL's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radioneter (Aster) recently captured these images of two volcanoes, erupting simultaneously, 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart. Read more

	May 1, 2007 Galaxy Mission Completes Four Star-Studded Years in Space NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer celebrates its fourth anniversary with some of the "hottest stars" in the M81 spiral galaxy. The mission, which launched April 28, 2003, studies the universe with its ultraviolet eyes. Read more

	May 1, 2007 Spitzer Spies Jet-Setting Stars Rainbow-colored jets in the cosmic cloud BHR 71 point to a celestial smash occurring 600 light-years away from Earth. Read more

	April 30, 2007 JPL Open House Takes Visitors on a Journey to the Planets and Beyond Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., invites the public on a "Journey To the Planets and Beyond." The laboratory will open its doors during its annual Open House on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read more

	April 30, 2007 CloudSat Campaign Helps Unravel Polar Climate Secrets Researchers have confirmed what NASA's CloudSat and Calipso satellites are telling us about how changes in clouds can affect climate in Earth's coldest regions. Read more

	April 30, 2007 Cassini Extends Mapping of Titan’s Surface Cassini's radar eyes imaged additional regions near Titan's north pole during an April 26, 2007, flyby. The instrument imaged the area slightly north of a feature nicknamed the "black sea." Read more

	April 26, 2007 Forecast Sunny as Cloud Mission Celebrates One Year A year after launch, NASA's CloudSat mission is providing insights into how clouds form, evolve and affect our weather, climate and freshwater supply. Read more

	April 25, 2007 Registration Opens for JPL, Sally Ride Science Workshop Educators can get involved in the first space shuttle flight of Educator Astronaut Barbara Morgan by registering for an Educator Institute offered by Northrop Grumman and Sally Ride Science in collaboration with NASA. Read more

	April 24, 2007 Mars Rovers Get Sir Arthur Clarke Awards The Mars Exploration Rover team has received the Best Corporate/Team Achievement Award at the 2007 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards in England. The team's principal investigator, Steve Squyres, accepted the Best Individual Achievement Award. Read more

	April 23, 2007 NASA Spacecraft Make First 3-D Images of Sun NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have made the first three-dimensional images of the sun. Read more

	April 18, 2007 Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone Astronomers have laid down the cosmic equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones where cooler stars are in danger of having their developing planets blasted away. Read more

	April 17, 2007 Interactive Website Brings Shuttle Mission Closer to Home Students across the country will be able to watch a webcast as participants question an Educator Astronaut about training and shuttle missions. Read more

	April 14, 2007 Through a Telescope Darkly From high atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano, scientists use an infrared telescope to study the Red Planet. Read more

	April 13, 2007 Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. Read more

	April 13, 2007 Mars Global Surveyor Mission Highlights NASA's Mars Global Surveyor made many important discoveries about Mars. Read more

	April 12, 2007 The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer - and for You! The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	April 12, 2007 Sea Hunt, Cassini Style Cassini successfully completed a flyby of Titan on April 10, 2007. The spacecraft flew over new parts of familiar terrain on the Saturnian moon -- its north polar region. Read more

	April 11, 2007 NASA Shows Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth Twin For the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. Read more

	April 11, 2007 Do Faraway Worlds Have Red Trees? Research by scientists, including David Crisp of JPL, indicates foliage on other Earth-sized worlds could be mainly yellow, orange or red. Read more

	April 10, 2007 Dawn Arrives in Florida - A Little After Dawn The Dawn spacecraft arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., today. Dawn, NASA's mission into the heart of the asteroid belt, is at the facility for final processing and launch operations. Read more

	April 10, 2007 Mystery Spiral Arms Explained? A quartet of space observatories, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, may have cracked a mystery surrounding ghostly galactic arms. Read more

	April 5, 2007 Searching for the Grandest Asteroid Tour Orbit mechanics experts from around the world recently met to discuss methods for finding the best possible spacecraft trajectory, or flight path, for visiting a sequence of asteroids. Read more

	April 5, 2007 Countdown to Dawn A high school guidance counselor told Jennifer Rocca that aerospace engineering was not a field for women. Luckily, the future systems engineer for the Dawn mission wasn't convinced. Read more

	April 5, 2007 Heavy '04-'05 Rains Caused San Gabriel Valley to Expand Using high-tech earthquake monitoring instruments, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey and other partners found LA's San Gabriel Valley rose and bulged outward following near-record rains in 2004-05. Read more

	April 4, 2007 Sun Activity Affects Global Positioning System An intense radio burst from an unprecedented solar eruption last December had widespread effects on the Global Positioning System. Read more

	April 3, 2007 NASA Finds Arctic Replenished Very Little Thick Sea Ice in 2005 A new NASA study has found that in 2005 the Arctic replaced very little of the thick sea ice it normally loses and replenishes each year. Read more

	April 2, 2007 Rosetta Instruments Tag Team With New Horizons Both Europe's Rosetta and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have focused instruments on Jupiter. The Rosetta Alice instrument provided global observations of the gas giant's aurora and the plasma torus around Jupiter's moon Io. Read more

	March 29, 2007 NASA Telescope Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy. Read more

	March 28, 2007 Golden State Heating Up, New NASA/University Study Finds Average temperatures in California rose almost one degree Celsius (nearly two degrees Fahrenheit) during the second half of the 20th century, according to a new study. Read more

	March 27, 2007 Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission. Read more

	March 27, 2007 Women Made Early Inroads at JPL In the 1940s, women started playing instrumental roles in JPL missions. Jobs that required orbital calculations evolved into some of today's software engineers. Read more

	March 27, 2007 Cassini and Titan Play 'Peek-a-Boo' on Latest Flyby Cassini completed a successful flyby of Titan on Mon., March 26. The spacecraft passed behind Titan for approximately 35 minutes. This is called an occultation, and it's Cassini's version of "peek-a-boo." A signal from the spacecraft, bounced off Titan's surface and received on Earth, will tell scientists more about Titan's surface. Read more

	March 23, 2007 JPL Presents Workshop for Small Business JPL will host a workshop to assist small businesses on April 18 at the Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego's Mission Valley. Read more

	March 23, 2007 Gravity Measurements Help Melt Ice Mysteries Greenland is cold and hot. It's a deep freezer storing 10 percent of Earth's ice and a subject of fevered debate. Read more

	March 22, 2007 Enceladus Geysers Mask the Length of Saturn's Day In a David and Goliath story of Saturnian proportions, the little moon Enceladus is weighing down giant Saturn's magnetic field so much that the field is rotating slower than the planet. Read more

	March 21, 2007 'Cool' Science: JPL Observes International Polar Year Within the frozen confines of Earth's polar regions lie secrets -- clues scientists believe can help unravel some of the mysteries that drive Earth's climate. Read more

	March 21, 2007 Former JPL Director Honored Former JPL director Edward C. Stone has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Aviation Week. Stone's long list of accomplishments includes his role as project scientist for the twin NASA Voyager spacecraft. Read more

	March 21, 2007 Comet-Chaser Mission Honored NASA's Stardust mission received the 2007 Aviation Week and Space Technology Laureate Award for extraordinary achievement in space. In January of 2006, Stardust successfully completed a seven-year, 2.8 billion mile journey to fly by a comet and return samples to Earth. Read more

	March 19, 2007 Sally Ride Science Festival for Girls Returns to Caltech Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, is presenting the Sally Ride Science Festival, held in association with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, March 24, on the Caltech campus. Read more

	March 19, 2007 NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records Since the time of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, the water levels of the Nile were accurately measured. These are now a unique resource for climatologists. Read more

	March 15, 2007 Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water. The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. Read more

	March 15, 2007 At Five, Grace Continues To Amaze The twin satellites of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment celebrate their fifth anniversary this week. They've improved our knowledge of Earth's gravity field by more than 100 times and are helping to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's climate. Read more

	March 14, 2007 NASA Mars Rover Churns Up Questions With Sulfur-Rich Soil Some bright Martian soil containing lots of sulfur and a trace of water intrigues researchers who are studying information provided by NASA's Spirit rover. Read more

	March 13, 2007 Students Rack Up Wins at Local Robotics Competition A high school robotics team sponsored by JPL was one of three teams capturing top honors at this year's Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition. Read more

	March 13, 2007 Cassini Spacecraft Images Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. Read more

	March 12, 2007 A Hot Start Might Explain Geysers on Enceladus A hot start billions of years ago might have set into motion the forces that power geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Read more

	March 12, 2007 New Panorama Reveals More Than 1,000 Black Holes Astronomers have created a black hole panorama using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes. Read more

	March 12, 2007 Cassini Cruises by Titan Cassini successfully completed a flyby of Titan on March 10, which included imaging an area just north of the equator, mapping temperatures, and monitoring cloud motion. On this flyby, Cassini scooped up material from the top of Titan's atmosphere to determine the constituents. Changes in temperature at the surface were also measured. Read more

	March 10, 2007 Student-Built Robots 'Rack 'N' Roll' High school teams from around California are competing this weekend in a Los Angeles regional robotics competition. This year's robotic challenge, to hang tubes on tall racks. Read more

	March 9, 2007 Planet Hunting Lands in L.A. Library An out-of-this-world exhibit has landed smack in the middle of downtown Los Angeles -- in a library, of all places. Read more

	March 7, 2007 NASA Mission Finds Link Between Big and Small Stellar Blasts Proof that certain double star systems can erupt in full-blown explosions and then continue to flare up with smaller bursts has been spotted by the ultraviolet eyes of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Read more

	March 7, 2007 Huygens Landing Site to Be Named After Hubert Curien An epic space mission and one of the founding fathers of the European space endeavor will be forever linked. NASA and European space officials are honoring Hubert Curien by naming the Huygens landing site on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after him. Read more

	March 2, 2007 Pacific Shows Signs of Morphing to Cool La Nina New data of sea-level heights from early February 2007, by the Jason satellite show that the tropical Pacific Ocean has transitioned from a warm (El Niño) to a cool (La Niña) condition during the prior two months. Read more

	March 1, 2007 Cassini Returns Never-Before-Seen Views of the Ringed Planet NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings. Read more

	March 1, 2007 Hubble Images Jupiter for New Horizons Flyby Using a camera developed and built by JPL, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this Jupiter image in support of the New Horizons mission. Read more

	February 27, 2007 Celebrating Black History Month: A Navigator David Jefferson has helped navigate JPL spacecraft to their exotic destinations -- Mars and two comets. Read more

	February 26, 2007 Sensor Being Developed to Check for Life on Mars NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool that could give clues to the origin of any traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars. Read more

	February 23, 2007 Celebrating Black History Month: An Information Technologist As JPL's first Associate Chief Information Officer, Dr. Magalene Powell-Meeks is responsible for making sure all of the lab's information technology needs are met. Read more

	February 23, 2007 Cassini Flyby Crisscrosses Familiar Terrain During Cassini's flyby of Titan on Feb. 22, the radar mapper imaged Titan's surface and crisscrossed over six previously mapped areas. Stay tuned for those views. Meanwhile, visit the raw image gallery for the latest images. Read more

	February 21, 2007 NASA's Spitzer First to Crack Open Light of Faraway Worlds NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify molecules in their atmospheres. Read more

$fractures within the Candor Chasma region of Valles Marineris, Mars$	February 15, 2007 NASA Mars Orbiter Sees Effects of Ancient Underground Fluids Liquid or gas flowed through cracks penetrating underground rock on ancient Mars, according to a report based on some of the first observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	February 14, 2007 Celebrating Black History Month: An Earth Scientist Christopher Boxe isn't yet 30 years old, but he's already become an expert in the field of environmental science. Read more

	February 13, 2007 The Colorful Demise of a Sun-Like Star A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our sun. The picture was taken on Feb. 6, 2007, by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which was designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Read more

	February 12, 2007 Comets Clash at Heart of Helix Nebula A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	February 8, 2007 Opposites Attract: Saturn Lures Earthly Admirers Mark your celestial calendar. Good views of Saturn start on Saturday, Feb. 10 and continue through June. Read more

	February 7, 2007 Spacecraft Set to Reach Milestone, Reports Technical Glitches NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft this month is set to surpass the record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft. While the mission continues to produce data at record levels, engineers are examining why two instruments are intermittently not performing entirely as planned. Read more

	February 7, 2007 NASA-European Spacecraft Swoops Under Sun's Pole The 16-year-old Ulysses spacecraft reaches what could be considered a low point in its mission observing the sun today - and solar scientists could not be happier. Read more

	February 7, 2007 Mars Rover Completes a 10-K NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is the first robot to travel 10 kilometers on Mars. It reached that total (6.2 miles) during a drive on Feb. 6. Read more

	February 7, 2007 Celebrating Black History Month: A Mission Manager Ed Massey has dedicated 20 years of his life working on NASA/JPL missions and projects, including the Voyager and Ulysses missions. Read more

	February 6, 2007 Satellites and Sea Lions: Working Together to Improve Ocean Models The best oceanographers in the world never studied at a university. Yet they know how to navigate expertly along oceanic fronts, the invisible boundaries between waters of different temperatures and densities. Read more

	February 6, 2007 Finding Beauty in the Universe Beth Biller overcame her fear of math to pursue her career as a serious astronomer. Read more

	February 5, 2007 Act Soon to Send Your Name to Mars NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will carry a DVD with names of people from around the world. About 200,000 names have been enrolled so far, and the deadline to get your name on board is Feb. 12. Phoenix will launch in August 2007 and reach Mars in May 2008. Read more

	January 31, 2007 Cassini Images Mammoth Cloud Engulfing Titan's North Pole A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	January 31, 2007 A NASA Space Sleuth Hunts the Trail of Earth's Water For the first time, NASA scientists have used a shrewd spaceborne detective to track the origin and movement of water vapor throughout Earth's atmosphere. Read more

	January 31, 2007 Pack Your Backpack Calling all explorers! Tour JPL with our new Virtual Field Trip site. Stops include Mission Control and the Rover Lab. Cool space images and souvenirs are included in your visit. Read more

	January 30, 2007 Cassini’s Infrared Eyes Aimed at Titan Cassini successfully completed a flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Monday, Jan. 29, aiming its infrared eyes on the moon's murky atmosphere, peering through its thick, smoggy veil, and mapping surface features. Read more

	January 24, 2007 The Jet Stream of Titan A pair of rare celestial alignments that occurred in November 2003 helped an international team of astronomers investigate the far-off world of Saturn's moon Titan. Read more

	January 23, 2007 And the Winner Is... This view of a Martian sunset, taken by Spirit, earned top honors in a web poll of Mars Exploration Rover images. Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, are beginning their fourth year on the red planet. Read more

	January 22, 2007 Science Foundation Honors Two Telescope Scientists A National Science Foundation medal goes to two scientists whose work on NASA's Two Micron All-Sky Survey enabled "a thrilling variety of explorations in astronomy and astrophysics." Read more

	January 19, 2007 Psychedelic Saturn This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings combines three images taken through different infrared filters by the Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	January 17, 2007 A Tale of Two Sites: Impacts of Relocating L.A.'s Weather Station To modern-day climatologists, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" could serve as a metaphor for weather records in Los Angeles since the the city's official downtown weather station was relocated. Read more

	January 16, 2007 Cassini Kicks off Busy Year of Titan Flybys A Titan flyby on Jan. 13 began a busy year of observing Titan in 2007. This year, Cassini has 17 flybys of the intriguing moon, the most of any year during the four-year prime mission. Read more

	January 12, 2007 NASA Presentations at the 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting NASA researchers, including several from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will present findings on a variety of Earth science topics at the 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, which runs Jan. 14 through Jan. 18, in San Antonio, Texas. Read more

	January 12, 2007 Huygens's Landing Second Anniversary - The Surprises Continue Two years ago, the Huygens probe drifted down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, beaming back data to Earth via the Cassini mother ship. Read more

	January 11, 2007 New NASA Orbiter Sees Details of 1997 Pathfinder Site The high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged the 1997 landing site of NASA's Mars Pathfinder, revealing new details of hardware on the surface and the geology of the region. Read more

	January 10, 2007 Panel Will Study Mars Global Surveyor Events NASA has formed an internal review board to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft. Read more

	January 10, 2007 QuikScat Shows Sea/Atmospheric Conditions at Time of Two Java Sea Disasters Ocean winds data from NASA's QuikScat satellite shed new insights into the atmospheric conditions present during recent air and sea disasters in the Java Sea. Read more

	January 10, 2007 Older Galaxy Pair Has Surprisingly Youthful Glow A pair of interacting galaxies might be experiencing the galactic equivalent of a mid-life crisis, according to new evidence from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory. Read more

	January 9, 2007 Famous Space Pillars Feel the Heat of Star's Explosion The three iconic space pillars photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 might have met their demise, according to new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	January 9, 2007 Device for Checking for Life on Mars Gets NASA Funding A proposed instrument to check for signs of life on Mars has been selected for development funding by NASA. JPL manages the development team headed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego. Read more

	January 8, 2007 NASA Selects Proposals for Future Mars Missions and Studies NASA selects proposals for future Mars missions and studies, including one managed by JPL. Read more

	January 8, 2007 JPL to Hold High-Tech Conference for Small Business NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 19th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on March 6 and 7, at the Radisson Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. Read more

	January 8, 2007 Astronomers Map 'Clumpy' Dark Matter in 3-D An international team of astronomers, including JPLer Jason Rhodes, used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to create the first three-dimensional map of dark matter in the universe. Read more

	January 5, 2007 Planet-Finding Mission to Predict Date of Cosmic Collision Scientists with NASA's planned SIM PlanetQuest expect to pin down the date of a galactic collision billions of years in our future by first reaching back to the Big Bang. Read more

	January 3, 2007 Titan Has Liquid Lakes, Scientists Report in Nature Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan in this week's journal Nature cover story. Read more

	January 3, 2007 Rover Photo Contest NASA's Spirit rover landed on the red planet on the evening of Jan. 3, 2004 (Pacific time). Opportunity landed a few weeks later. For three years, the rovers have returned fabulous images. Now it's your turn to vote for your favorite picture. Read more