News Articles for 2012

	December 27, 2012 NASA Encourages Public to Explore Its Curiosity with New Rover-Themed Badge on Foursquare NASA and the mobile application Foursquare have teamed up to help the public unlock its scientific curiosity with a new rover-themed Curiosity Explorer badge. Read more

	December 20, 2012 Science Fair Projects Demystified in JPL Education Videos Just in time for science fair season, the JPL Education Office has released a video series designed help teachers, students and parents craft a science fair project. Read more

	December 20, 2012 One Million Downloads for JPL Space Images App Space Images, the mobile image application from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that puts visuals direct from space missions at users' fingertips, has reached 1 million downloads. Read more

	December 20, 2012 Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks NASA's Cassini spacecraft is using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer for more than looking at hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan and dirt in Saturn's rings. Read more

	December 19, 2012 Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds Citizen scientists are invited to help astronomers by tagging clouds and holes in cosmic images from the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes. Read more

	December 18, 2012 Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay' The NASA Mars rover Curiosity this week is driving within a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," providing information to help researchers choose a rock to drill. Read more

	December 18, 2012 Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves A runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	December 18, 2012 From Cassini for the Holidays: A Splendor Seldom Seen Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years, has delivered another glorious view of the planet Saturn and its rings. Read more

	December 17, 2012 NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space. Read more

	December 17, 2012 NASA GRAIL Twins Complete Their Moon Impact Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have received confirmation that the twin GRAIL spacecraft have completed their planned impact into the moon. Read more

	December 14, 2012 Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate. Read more

	December 14, 2012 NASA to Provide Commentary as Grail Moon Mission Ends NASA will provide live commentary of the scheduled lunar surface impacts of its twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft beginning at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) Monday, Dec. 17. Read more

	December 14, 2012 Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth Scientists have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2012. Read more

	December 13, 2012 NASA Probes Prepare for Mission-Ending Moon Impact Twin NASA spacecraft that spent this year studying the moon's internal structure and composition are being prepared for a controlled descent and impact on the moon on Dec. 17. Read more

	December 12, 2012 NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Planetary Exploration Fifty years ago, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet. Read more

	December 12, 2012 Cassini Spots Mini Nile River on Saturn Moon Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of the Nile River. Read more

	December 11, 2012 Mars Rover Self-Portrait Shoot Uses Arm Choreography A self-portrait of the NASA Mars Rover Curiosity stitches together dozens of images by the camera at the end of the rover's arm. Read more

	December 11, 2012 Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 63 feet (19 meters) northeastward Monday, Dec. 10, approaching an area called "Yellowknife Bay," where researchers will choose a rock to drill. Read more

	December 10, 2012 NASA hosts Dec. 13 Telecon on Twin Probes' Mission-Ending Moon Impact NASA hosts a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. EST) Thurs., Dec. 13, to provide an overview of events leading up to twin spacecraft to impact the moon's surface. Read more

	December 7, 2012 Students' Toss Wins Top Honors at JPL Competition Monroe Magnet Middle School, Inglewood, Calif., claimed victory at the annual Invention Challenge, held today at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Read more

	December 6, 2012 What is Creating Gullies on Vesta? Something is forming intriguing gullies on the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are trying to figure out what could be creating these features. Read more

	December 6, 2012 Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is helping to find the rarest and largest of galaxy groupings in the universe. Read more

	December 5, 2012 Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars Pictures from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show scars on the surface of the Red Planet where discarded pieces of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft hit the ground. Read more

	December 5, 2012 NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. Read more

	December 4, 2012 New NASA Mars Rover to Launch in 2020 NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. Read more

	December 4, 2012 NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout. Read more

	December 3, 2012 Scientists Find Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake Scientists from NASA and other institutions have found bacteria beneath the icy surface of a remote Antarctic lake, expanding our knowledge of life in extreme environments. Read more

	December 3, 2012 NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space. Read more

	December 3, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Read more

	November 29, 2012 NASA to Host Dec. 3 Teleconference About Voyager Mission NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 3, to discuss the latest findings and travels of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. Read more

	November 29, 2012 NASA Spacecraft Finds New Mercury Water Ice Evidence NASA's MESSENGER mission finds compelling support for the hypothesis of abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in Mercury's permanently shadowed polar craters. Read more

	November 29, 2012 Update Set in San Francisco About Curiosity Mars Rover The next news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Read more

	November 29, 2012 Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing, Study Finds An international team of experts has combined satellite and aircraft data to produce the most comprehensive assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica. Read more

	November 28, 2012 Swirling Storms on Saturn NASA's Cassini spots roiling storm clouds and a swirling vortex at Saturn's north pole. Read more

	November 28, 2012 NASA's Cassini Sees Abrupt Turn in Titan's Atmosphere Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft tie a shift in seasonal sunlight to a wholesale reversal, at unexpected altitudes, in the circulation of the atmosphere of Titan. Read more

	November 28, 2012 NASA Study Could Improve Hurricane Strength Forecasts Forecasters could be able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments. Read more

	November 27, 2012 Herschel Serves up Solar Systems with Extra Comets Astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. Read more

	November 27, 2012 Regional Dust Storm Dissipating A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global. Read more

	November 26, 2012 Nine Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8 Images of asteroid 2007 PA8 have been generated with data collected by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar. Read more

	November 26, 2012 One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Mission launched a year ago today, putting the rover Curiosity on its way to Gale Crater, where it has been working for 16 weeks. Read more

	November 26, 2012 Cassini Finds a Video Gamers' Paradise at Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots another 'Pac-Man'-shaped feature, this time on Saturn's moon Tethys. Read more

	November 21, 2012 Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mars. Read more

	November 20, 2012 Planck Spots Colossal Intergalactic Bridge The Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space. Read more

	November 20, 2012 Curiosity Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving overlook location. Read more

	November 19, 2012 What Goes Down Must Come Back Up In 2010-11, global sea level fell nearly a quarter inch. But, when it comes to long-term sea level, what comes down must eventually come back up. Read more

	November 15, 2012 NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the Red Planet's surface. Read more

	November 15, 2012 NASA Observatories Find Most Distant Galaxy Candidate By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record. Read more

	November 14, 2012 NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has completed its mission and is starting an extended mission. Read more

	November 14, 2012 Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud New stars can be seen bubbling up around the remains of a dramatic stellar explosion in this new portrait from two space telescopes. Read more

	November 13, 2012 NASA Hosts Nov. 15 Telecon About Mars Rover Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Thursday, Nov. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	November 13, 2012 Rover's 'SAM' Lab Instrument Suite Tastes Soil A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM. Read more

	November 12, 2012 NASA Study Examines Antarctic Sea Ice Increases While Arctic sea ice cover is declining dramatically under the effects of climate change, Antarctic sea ice cover has increased in recent years. A new study examines why. Read more

	November 12, 2012 Long-Lived Orbiter Resumes Work With Fresh Equipment The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment that had not be used since before the spacecraft's 2001 launch. Read more

	November 9, 2012 A Scroll Through Memory Lane With Cassini A new, interactive version of a timeline of NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn is now available online. Read more

	November 8, 2012 Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections A new NASA-funded study finds future warming of Earth's climate is likely to be on the high side of current projections. Read more

	November 6, 2012 Curiosity Team Switches Back to Earth Time After three months working on "Mars time," the team operating NASA Mars rover Curiosity has switched to more regular hours, as planned. Read more

	November 5, 2012 NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8 Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have obtained several radar images depicting near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8. Read more

	November 2, 2012 Scientists Monitor Comet Breakup Comet 168P/Hergenrother is breaking up, right before our very eyes. Read more

	November 2, 2012 NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Read more

	November 1, 2012 Mars Longevity Champ Switching Computers NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, already the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, will switch equipment next week that has not been used since before launch in 2001. Read more

	November 1, 2012 NASA Maps How Nutrients Affect Plant Productivity A new analysis led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has estimated how much the growth of plants worldwide is limited by the amount of nutrients available in their soil. Read more

	November 1, 2012 Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a new study. Read more

	October 31, 2012 Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees dim, unexplained light diffusing up through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Read more

	October 31, 2012 NASA Hosts Nov. 2 Teleconference About Mars Rover Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Friday, Nov. 2, to provide an update on Curiosity's studies of the Martian atmosphere. Read more

	October 31, 2012 Dawn Sees 'Young' Surface on Giant Asteroid Like a Hollywood starlet constantly retouching her makeup, the giant asteroid Vesta is constantly stirring its outermost layer to present a young face. Read more

	October 30, 2012 NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii. Read more

	October 29, 2012 NASA Satellites Watch Hurricane Sandy NASA satellites are observing extremely dangerous and historic Hurricane Sandy as it moves into the northeastern U.S. Read more

	October 29, 2012 Continuing Work With Scoops at 'Rocknest' NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 82 (Oct. 29, 2012) photographed diverse rocks in the "Rocknest" area and prepared for overnight soil sample analysis. Read more

	October 26, 2012 NASA Oct. 30 Telecon About Mars Curiosity Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Oct. 30, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	October 25, 2012 NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill Researchers at JPL and Caltech have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in oil spills like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Read more

	October 25, 2012 Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover's Observation Tray NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct. 24, 2012) to view soil material on the rover's observation tray. Read more

	October 25, 2012 NASA's Cassini Sees Burp at Saturn After Large Storm NASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn. Read more

	October 24, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome Stars A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. Read more

	October 23, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. Read more

	October 22, 2012 Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil NASA's rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. Read more

	October 18, 2012 JPL Scientists Participate in ShakeOut Exercises Two JPL-developed projects designed to assist in response to earthquake disasters participated in exercises tied to today's Great California ShakeOut quake drill. Read more

	October 18, 2012 Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. Read more

	October 17, 2012 Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California? California has its share of disasters, like earthquakes, fires and floods. But what are the odds a hurricane could ever strike here? Turns out the concept isn't exactly all wet. Read more

	October 17, 2012 Jupiter: Turmoil from Below, Battering from Above NASA scientists are observing Jupiter's appearance - its clouds, belts, hotspots, fireballs - change in unprecedented ways. Read more

	October 16, 2012 NASA to Host Mars Curiosity Rover Teleconference Oct. 18 NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 18, about the latest status of the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars. Read more

	October 16, 2012 What's Baking on Titan? NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots curious surface features on Saturn's largest moon, including a "hot-cross bun" and outlines of vast southern seas. Read more

	October 15, 2012 A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years It's been 3.8 billion miles and a trunk full of memories for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, launched 15 years ago today. Read more

	October 15, 2012 Citizens Discover Four-Star Planet with NASA's Kepler A joint effort of amateur astronomers and scientists has led to the first reported case of a planet orbiting a double star, orbited itself by a second distant pair of stars. Read more

	October 15, 2012 Rover's Second Scoop Discarded, Third Scoop Commanded Commands will be sent to Curiosity today instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the "Rocknest" site of windblown Martian sand and dust. Read more

	October 15, 2012 NASA's WISE Colors in Unknowns on Jupiter Asteroids Observations from NASA's WISE all-sky survey reveal new clues about Jovian Trojans, mysterious asteroids that orbit in front of and behind Jupiter in its path around the sun. Read more

	October 12, 2012 Curiosity Preparing for Second Scoop On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil. Read more

	October 12, 2012 How to Hunt a Space Rock A team of scientists from JPL needed some space. When a large fireball turned night into day over Battle Mountain, Nev. they knew they had their chance. Read more

	October 11, 2012 JPL 'Genius': NASA Astronomer Named MacArthur Fellow JPL scientist Olivier Guyon has been named one of the 2012 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious award popularly known as the "genius grant." Read more

	October 11, 2012 Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. Read more

	October 11, 2012 Bounce, Skid, Wobble: How Huygens Landed on Titan New analysis of data from the Huygens probe shows a complex surface. Read more

	October 10, 2012 Work Resumes with First Scooped Sample The team operating Curiosity decided on Oct. 9, 2012, to proceed with using the rover's first scoop of Martian material. Read more

	October 9, 2012 NASA Hosts Teleconference About Mars Rover Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 11, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	October 8, 2012 NASA's Voyager Receives 'Breakthrough Award' With two spacecraft on the cusp of interstellar space, NASA's Voyager mission is honored by Popular Mechanics. Read more

	October 4, 2012 Deep Impact Spacecraft Completes Rocket Burn NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a firing of its onboard rocket motors earlier today. Read more

	October 4, 2012 NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis. Read more

	October 3, 2012 The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life What was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes. Read more

	October 3, 2012 NASA's Curiosity Rover Checks In on Mars Using Foursquare NASA's Curiosity Mars rover checked in on Mars Wednesday using the mobile application Foursquare. Read more

	October 3, 2012 NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart. Read more

	October 2, 2012 NASA Radar to Study Volcanoes in Alaska, Japan A NASA's venerable Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar is off to Alaska and Japan to assess volcanic activity in several active volcanoes. Read more

	October 2, 2012 NASA Hosts Teleconference About Mars Curiosity Rover Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 4, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	September 28, 2012 Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill' NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intriguing geological features. Read more

	September 27, 2012 NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface Scientists are studying the images of stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock. Read more

	September 26, 2012 Giant Asteroid's Troughs Suggest Stunted Planet Data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft suggest troughs sculpted around Vesta's middle are likely dropped blocks of terrain bounded by faults. Read more

	September 26, 2012 Study Examines Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change Mid-elevation forests between 6,500 to 8,000 feet elevation are most sensitive to climate change, finds a new University of Colorado Boulder-led study co-funded by NASA. Read more

	September 26, 2012 NASA to Televise Mars Curiosity Rover Science Update Sept. 27 NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 27, to present science findings from the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	September 26, 2012 Dawn: Vesta Got Special Delivery of Hydrated Minerals Observations by NASA's Dawn mission suggest that hydrated minerals were delivered to Vesta in a radically different way than how they were deposited on the moon. Read more

	September 24, 2012 Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake Matijevic." Read more

	September 20, 2012 Shuttle Endeavour Flyby Brought an Old Friend to JPL JPL employees, whose space shuttle Endeavour payloads gave us windows to worlds near and far, gazed skyward Sept. 21, 2012 as Endeavour paid the lab a visit before retirement. Read more

	September 20, 2012 NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days Tomorrow, Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft. Read more

	September 20, 2012 Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Read more

	September 20, 2012 QuakeSim and NASA Mobile App Win NASA Software Award NASA software that models the behavior of earthquake faults and NASA's first mobile application are co-winners of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award. Read more

	September 19, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock Enroute to First Destination NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Read more

	September 19, 2012 NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Read more

	September 18, 2012 Researchers Brew Up Organics on Ice JPL researchers are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the lab, then zapping them with lasers. Read more

	September 18, 2012 JPL to Stream Mars Curiosity Telecon NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 19), to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	September 17, 2012 Juno's Two Deep Space Maneuvers are 'Back-To-Back Home Runs' NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully executed a second Deep Space Maneuver, called DSM-2 last Friday, Sept. 14. Read more

	September 14, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Read more

	September 14, 2012 First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster NASA-funded astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. Read more

	September 12, 2012 Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock. Read more

	September 11, 2012 JPL to Stream Mars Curiosity Telecon and Lecture NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 12), to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	September 11, 2012 NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars. Read more

	September 11, 2012 Extreme Life Forms Might be Able to Survive on Eccentric Exoplanets While the hunt continues for the elusive Earth-like "blue dot," astronomers have discovered a collection of odd exoplanets. Read more

	September 11, 2012 Vesta in Dawn's Rear View Mirror NASA's Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the giant asteroid Vesta, using some of the last images taken by the spacecraft as it departed Vesta. Read more

	September 10, 2012 NASA's 'Earth Now'App Now Available for Android One of the top iPhone education apps in the iTunes store is now available for Android. Read more

	September 10, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Curiosity's Arm Wields Camera Well The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity spent a busy weekend taking photos from several arm positions. Read more

	September 7, 2012 NASA's Global Hawk Hurricane Mission Kicks Off NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight that began in California and ended in Virginia. Read more

	September 7, 2012 NASA Mars Exploration Rover Team to be Honored The mission team for NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity will be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award. Read more

	September 6, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Arm-Work Phase After driving more than a football field's length since landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm. Read more

	September 5, 2012 Cheers, Voyager: 35 Years of Exploration Thirty-five years ago today, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft launched on its mission of exploration. JPL hosted a birthday party in its honor. Read more

	September 5, 2012 Dawn has Departed the Giant Asteroid Vesta Mission controllers received confirmation today that NASA's Dawn spacecraft has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	September 5, 2012 NASA to Host Telecon About Curiosity Rover Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Sept. 6, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	September 5, 2012 NASA to Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness, Climate A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. Read more

	August 31, 2012 NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. Read more

	August 30, 2012 NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes its Orbit NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its first deep-space maneuver in its journey to Jupiter, firing its engine to refine its trajectory for a future Earth gravity assist. Read more

	August 30, 2012 NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. Read more

	August 29, 2012 A Slow-moving Isaac Brings Flooding to Gulf States Although now downgraded to a tropical storm, Isaac is still delivering near-hurricane force winds and heavy rains to parts of the Gulf Coast. Read more

	August 29, 2012 NASA Curiosity Rover Begins Eastbound Trek on Martian Surface NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill. Read more

	August 29, 2012 Saturn and its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released today. Read more

	August 29, 2012 Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code A Morse code pattern imprinted in the track marks of NASA's Curiosity will help the rover drive more accurately. Read more

	August 29, 2012 NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes NASA's WISE mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Read more

	August 28, 2012 Cooler Waters Help Diminish Isaac's Punch As Hurricane Isaac prepares to come ashore in southeast Louisiana, its skirt around the Gulf of Mexico's warmest waters has helped slow its intensification. Read more

	August 28, 2012 NASA-Funded Study Helps Untangle Methane Mystery A new NASA-funded study has largely accounted for the dramatic leveling-off in atmospheric methane levels seen at the end of the 20th century. Read more

	August 28, 2012 Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted from Another Planet For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Read more

	August 27, 2012 First Recorded Voice from Mars The following statement by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was returned to Earth via the Mars Curiosity rover. Read more

	August 27, 2012 NASA Rover Returns Voice and Telephoto Views from Mars NASA's Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back. Read more

	August 25, 2012 Astronaut Neil Armstrong 1930-2012 Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, has died. Read more

	August 24, 2012 NASA Announces Aug. 27 Mars News Conference NASA will hold a televised news conference at 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m.EDT), Monday, Aug. 27, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., about the activities of its Curiosity rover mission on Mars. Read more

	August 23, 2012 NASA Event to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme Objects NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Read more

	August 22, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury Landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author Ray Bradbury. Read more

	August 21, 2012 NASA to Hold Televised Curiosity Rover Media Briefing Aug. 22 NASA will hold a televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to update media on the progress of its Curiosity rover mission on Mars. Read more

	August 21, 2012 NASA's Curiosity Studies Mars Surroundings, Nears Drive NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been investigating the Martian weather around it and the soil beneath it, as its controllers prepare for the car-size vehicle's first drive on Mars. Read more

	August 21, 2012 First Words of Safe Landing on Mars - Tango Delta Nominal The entry, descent and landing of NASA's new Mars rover was full of unknowns - including when was the right time to declare Curiosity safe and sound on the surface. Read more

	August 20, 2012 New Insight on Mars Expected from New NASA Mission On Aug. 20, NASA announced the selection of InSight, a new Discovery-class mission that will probe Mars at new depths by looking into the deep interior of Mars. Read more

	August 20, 2012 Curiosity Stretches its Arm NASA's Mars rover Curiosity flexed its robotic arm today for the first time since before launch in November 2011. Read more

	August 20, 2012 New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to study its evolution compared with other rocky planets. Read more

	August 20, 2012 Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side First of the Voyager spacecraft launched 35 years ago today. Read more

	August 19, 2012 Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a rock called "Coronation." Read more

	August 19, 2012 NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule NASA will host several media teleconferences and/or news conferences to provide Curiosity rover mission updates in the coming weeks. Read more

	August 17, 2012 NASA Curiosity Team Pinpoints Site for First Drive The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. Read more

	August 17, 2012 NASA Awards Caltech Five-Year Jet Propulsion Laboratory Contract NASA has awarded the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena a new five-year contract to manage the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read more

	August 16, 2012 NASA to Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17 NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT), Friday, Aug. 17, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	August 14, 2012 Orbiter Views NASA's New Mars Rover in Color The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars shows details of the layered bedrock in Gale Crater that the rover is starting to investigate. Read more

	August 13, 2012 Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel Engineers are working on part of a system that helps the Dawn spacecraft point precisely. The rest of the spacecraft is otherwise healthy. Read more

	August 13, 2012 NASA Hosts Teleconference About Curiosity Rover Progress NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Aug. 14, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	August 13, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Team Hears from President Obama President Barack Obama called to congratulate members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Monday (Aug. 13). Read more

	August 11, 2012 Curiosity Sends High-Resolution Color Images from Gale Crater NASA's Curiosity rover has returned high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars that reveal a landscape not unlike portions of the southwestern United States. Read more

	August 10, 2012 NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm. Read more

	August 9, 2012 NASA's Curiosity Beams Back a Color 360 of Gale Crater The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Read more

	August 9, 2012 Timeline of Major Mission Events During Curiosity's Landing Curiosity's Entry, Descent and Landing team has provided a timeline of critical mission events that occurred on the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (early on Aug. 6 EDT). Read more

	August 8, 2012 First 360-Degree Panorama From NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. Read more

	August 7, 2012 Orbiter Images NASA's Martian Landscape Additions Monday night, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the Curiosity rover and the components that helped it survive its ordeal from space to its present location on Mars. Read more

	August 6, 2012 New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing its Descent Earlier today, just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. Read more

	August 6, 2012 NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater. Read more

	August 6, 2012 NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater. Read more

	August 5, 2012 NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. Read more

	August 5, 2012 Curiosity Rover Just Hours from Mars Landing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic exploration ever attempted. Read more

	August 4, 2012 Explore A Room With a Mars View New panorama gives viewers an inside look at the room where mission team members will guide NASA's Curiosity rover through its entry, descent and landing on Mars. Read more

	August 4, 2012 Mars Tugging on Approaching NASA Rover Curiosity The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours. Read more

	August 3, 2012 What to Expect When Curiosity Starts Snapping Pictures Unlike a group of tourists just arriving on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover will take a more careful approach to snapping its first images. Read more

	August 3, 2012 Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge The pace of changes quicken at the boundary of interstellar space. Read more

	August 2, 2012 Newest NASA Mars Mission Connects Past and Future NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in three days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future decades. Read more

	August 2, 2012 NASA Hosts Social Media Events Across Seven Agency Field Centers NASA's social media followers at seven field centers will virtually come together at a NASA Social on Friday, Aug. 3, to preview the landing of the the Curiosity rover. Read more

	August 1, 2012 JPL Infographics Site Wants You and Your Creativity A new JPL website is offering up NASA graphics, images and science data, inviting the public to create and share out-of-this-world infographics. Read more

	July 30, 2012 NASA Announces News Activities for Mars Landing The public is invited to tune in for a series of news briefings from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the upcoming landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. Read more

	July 28, 2012 Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago. Read more

	July 24, 2012 China Olympics Traffic Measures Cut Carbon Emissions As the world readies for the 2012 London Olympics, a NASA-funded study finds traffic restrictions for the 2008 Beijing Olympics sharply reduced carbon dioxide emissions. Read more

	July 24, 2012 Mars Orbiter Repositioned to Phone Home Mars Landing NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the Curiosity rover. Read more

	July 24, 2012 Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Read more

	July 23, 2012 Astronaut-Educator Sally Ride Passes Away JPL Director Charles Elachi releases a statement on Sally K. Ride, America's first woman in space, who died on Monday, July 23. Read more

	July 23, 2012 President Obama Honors NASA Scientists and Engineers President Obama has named six NASA individuals, including one from JPL, as recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Read more

	July 19, 2012 Meet a Face Behind the MIRI Mike Ressler, the project scientist for the MIRI at JPL, has been involved in building infrared astronomical instruments for 30 years. Read more

	July 18, 2012 Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year's storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the planet, with bluish spots in the middle of swirling clouds. Read more

	July 18, 2012 Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller Than Earth Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. Read more

	July 17, 2012 Researchers Develop New Amp to Study the Universe Researchers at JPL and Caltech have developed an instrument for exploring the cosmos and the quantum world. Read more

	July 17, 2012 Study Finds Heat is Source of 'Pioneer Anomaly' Analysis shows the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 explains unexpected slowing of the spacecraft. Read more

	July 16, 2012 NASA Selects Launch Contractor for Jason-3 Mission NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Jason-3 spacecraft in December 2014. Read more

	July 16, 2012 NASA Selects Launch Contractor for Three Missions NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) spacecraft. Read more

	July 16, 2012 Follow Your Curiosity: Some New Ways to Explore Mars A "virtual rover experience" and a body-action video game are among the options for public participation in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Read more

	July 16, 2012 NASA's Car-Sized Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. Read more

	July 13, 2012 Orbiter Enters, Then Exits, Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter experienced about 21 hours in a reduced-activity precautionary status ending at about 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, July 12. Read more

	July 11, 2012 NASA 3-D App Gives Public Ability to Experience Robotic Space Travel A NASA-created application that brings some of the agency's robotic spacecraft to life in 3-D now is available for free on the iPhone and iPad. Read more

	July 11, 2012 NASA News Conference to Preview August Mars Rover Landing NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) Monday, July 16, to discuss the upcoming August landing of the most advanced robot ever sent to another world. Read more

	July 10, 2012 The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's largest moon. Read more

	July 9, 2012 Saturn's Rings are Back NASA's Cassini spacecraft has changed its orbit so it can see Saturn's rings again. How did it do this? Read more

	July 9, 2012 New Instrument Sifts Starlight for New Worlds "Dark holes" around stars will provide astronomers with windows for finding planets. Read more

	July 5, 2012 The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust Astronomers have discovered that vast amounts of planetary dust, enough to fill the inner portions of a solar system, have suddenly vanished. Read more

	July 5, 2012 Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There A 360-degree view combining 817 separate images displays features that surrounded NASA's Mars rover Opportunity during a four-month winter work campaign. Read more

	July 3, 2012 NASA Scientist: Climate Just One Factor in Wildfires As America celebrates its independence, 45 active large wildfires are creating unwanted fireworks, especially in the West. JPL Climatologist Bill Patzert answers some of our questions. Read more

	July 2, 2012 Two Cameras Offer View of Webb Telescope in Clean Room A pair of "Webb-cams" provide a view inside a NASA clean room, where the Mid-Infrared instrument is being integrated into the James Webb Space Telescope. Read more

	July 2, 2012 The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE Image A fiery image from NASA's WISE mission shows the Flame nebula "burning" a hole in the cosmic dust. Read more

	July 2, 2012 Fireworks Over Mars: The Spirit of 76 Pyrotechnics Seventy-six pyrotechnic devices must fire on time during the descent of Mars Science Laboratory to the Martian surface on August 5. Read more

	June 28, 2012 Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray Eyes NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has snapped its first test images of the sizzling high-energy X-ray universe. Read more

	June 28, 2012 Cassini Finds Likely Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. Read more

	June 27, 2012 Longest-Lived Mars Orbiter is Back in Service NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed its science observations and its role as a Mars rover's relay, thanks to a spare part that had been waiting 11 years to be put to use. Read more

	June 26, 2012 Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain. Read more

	June 26, 2012 Astronomers Spot Rare Arc From Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Read more

	June 25, 2012 Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn Scientists studying images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found that heat from within the planet powers the jet streams. Read more

	June 21, 2012 Study Slashes Deforestation Carbon Emission Estimate A new study with NASA participation cuts, by two-thirds, previous estimates of how much carbon is being emitted into our atmosphere from tropical deforestation. Read more

	June 21, 2012 NuSTAR Mission Status Report: Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe. Read more

	June 21, 2012 Astronomers Discover Planetary Odd Couple NASA's Kepler mission finds odd planetary duo with the closest orbits between two planets ever confirmed. Read more

	June 19, 2012 Orbiter Out of Precautionary 'Safe Mode' NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been taken out of a protective status called safe mode. Read more

	June 19, 2012 Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. Read more

	June 17, 2012 Study Finds Ancient Warming Greened Antarctica A new study with NASA participation finds ancient Antarctica's climate was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected, supporting substantial vegetation along its edges. Read more

	June 15, 2012 NASA Releases Workshop Data and Findings on Asteroid 2011 AG5 Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040. Read more

	June 14, 2012 Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future New data from NASA's Voyager 1 indicate that the spacecraft is drawing ever closer to exiting our solar system and entering interstellar space. Read more

	June 14, 2012 Test of Spare Wheel Puts Orbiter on Path to Recovery Mission controllers test a spare reaction wheel on NASA's Odyssey for potential use with two other reaction wheels in adjusting and maintaining the spacecraft's orientation. Read more

	June 14, 2012 Dawn Easing into its Final Science Orbit NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin its final prime science phase at Vesta on June 15. Read more

	June 14, 2012 First Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb Space Telescope The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. Read more

	June 13, 2012 Got Salt? NASA's Salt Mapper Toasts First Birthday To mark its first birthday, a new interactive feature lets you get up close and personal with NASA's Aquarius mission to study ocean salinity and some of its 'salt sleuths.' Read more

	June 13, 2012 Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. Read more

	June 13, 2012 Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. Read more

	June 13, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched this morning over the central Pacific, beginning its mission to study black holes and other exotic objects. Read more

	June 11, 2012 NuSTAR to Drop From Plane and Rocket Into Space The rocket carrying NASA's NuSTAR mission has launched from its carrier plane. Read more

	June 11, 2012 NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. Read more

	June 8, 2012 Mapping Volcanic Heat on Io A new study reveals information about the pattern of heat coming from volcanoes on the surface of Jupiter's fiery moon Io. Read more

	June 8, 2012 Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into precautionary standby status June 8 Universal Time, when it detected unexpected characteristics in movement of one reaction wheel. Read more

	June 8, 2012 NASA Tests Future Mars Landing Technology For the first time in decades, NASA is reinventing the type of parachutes being used to land on Mars. Read more

	June 8, 2012 WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the center. Read more

	June 7, 2012 NASA Hosts Telecon About Rover en Route to Mars Landing NASA will host a media telecon on June 11 to provide a status update on the Aug. 5 landing of the most advanced rover ever to be sent to Mars. Read more

	June 7, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	June 7, 2012 NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site NASA's NuSTAR mission is now at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, awaiting its June 13 airborne launch. Read more

	June 6, 2012 Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Turns Off The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft was turned off between Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2, when a circuit breaker tripped off after the instrument experienced some unexpected voltage shifts. Read more

	June 6, 2012 NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch NASA will host a news teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) June 11 to discuss the upcoming launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observatory, scheduled for no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT) June 13. Read more

	June 6, 2012 Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	June 5, 2012 Venus' Transit and the Search for Other Worlds On June 5 or 6, 2012, depending on your location, catch your final opportunity this century to witness Venus slowly drift across the sun's golden disk. Read more

	June 5, 2012 NASA Invites Social Media Fans to Mars Landing Event NASA to host a NASA Social for 25 social media fans Aug. 3-5 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in anticipation of the Curiosity Mars rover's landing. Read more

	June 4, 2012 NuSTAR Strapped to its Plane NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is strapped to the bottom of the plane that will carry it to launch on June 13. Read more

	June 1, 2012 Unmanned NASA Storm Sentinels set for Hurricane Study NASA is preparing to fly two unmanned aircraft high over hurricanes this summer and fall to study how they form and intensify. Read more

	May 31, 2012 Venus, a Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. Read more

	May 31, 2012 Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. Read more

	May 30, 2012 NASA Preparing to Launch its Newest X-Ray Eyes NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. Read more

	May 29, 2012 NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft downlinked its last lunar gravity data set for its prime mission today. Read more

	May 24, 2012 NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. Read more

	May 24, 2012 NASA to Hold News Conference About NuSTAR Launch NASA will hold a news conference on Wednesday, May 30 at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Read more

	May 22, 2012 Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable NASA Rover Late-afternoon shadows add punch to a false-color vista of Endeavour Crater on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover. Read more

	May 22, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Gearing up for Launch Engineers are installing the "nose cone" around NASA's NuSTAR, a black hole hunter. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13. Read more

	May 21, 2012 NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet A planet with a tail? NASA's Kepler mission has found evidence for what may be a disintegrating planet. Read more

	May 21, 2012 Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Read more

	May 17, 2012 Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. Read more

	May 16, 2012 NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. Read more

	May 16, 2012 NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos. Read more

	May 15, 2012 JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Read more

	May 11, 2012 Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes this week in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater. Read more

	May 10, 2012 NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves a step closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument. Read more

	May 10, 2012 NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper En route to Jupiter, NASA's Juno mission has snapped a quick photo of a familiar sight in the nighttime sky--the Big Dipper. Read more

	May 9, 2012 NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft provides the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon. Read more

	May 9, 2012 Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, Greeley Haven. Read more

	May 9, 2012 NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. Read more

	May 9, 2012 Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes. Read more

	May 8, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time. Read more

	May 7, 2012 NASA to Hold News Conference on Dawn Mission Results NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) to present a new analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta using data from the agency's Dawn spacecraft. Read more

	May 3, 2012 A NASA Weather 'Eye in the Sky' Marks 10 Years With 2,378 spectral eyes measuring our atmosphere, NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder might well be called a "monster" of weather and climate research. On May 4, it turns 10. Read more

	May 3, 2012 Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site' A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites the rover has seen before. Read more

	May 2, 2012 Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione. Read more

	May 2, 2012 Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Read more

	May 1, 2012 Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making a close flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on May 2. Read more

	April 27, 2012 100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing At 10:31 p.m. PDT today, April 27, (1:31 p.m. EDT), NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will be within 100 days from the Martian surface. Read more

	April 26, 2012 Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Read more

	April 26, 2012 NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. Read more

	April 24, 2012 Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta Findings from Dawn reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. Read more

	April 24, 2012 Cassini Investigates Titan's Chemical Factory Saturn's moon Titan has a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. How long has this "factory" been in business? Read more

	April 24, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy With Split Personality While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both. Read more

	April 24, 2012 Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It? Scientists have a size estimate for an impressive fireball that was witnessed over California's Central Valley Sunday (4/22). Read more

	April 24, 2012 NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Quakes A research network of Western U.S. GPS stations will be tested to see if it can quickly pinpoint a strong quake's location/size and aid in disaster response/tsunami warning. Read more

	April 24, 2012 JPL to Host Small Business Science Forum, Supplier Fair NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., through its Business Opportunities Office, will host a supplier fair featuring 20 to 25 local and national high-tech small businesses. Read more

	April 23, 2012 Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed strange half-mile-sized objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind. Read more

	April 22, 2012 Study Finds Surprising Arctic Methane Emission Source The Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane. A new study with NASA contributions finds the Arctic Ocean may be an important source. Read more

	April 19, 2012 NASA Image Gallery Highlights Earth's Changing Face Just in time for Earth Day, NASA's Global Climate Change website unveils a new version of its "State of Flux" image gallery, which highlights how our home planet is changing. Read more

	April 19, 2012 Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission find that a lake on Saturn's moon Titan most resembles Etosha Pan in Namibia. Read more

	April 18, 2012 Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	April 16, 2012 Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back images of the icy moons Enceladus and Tethys during its course through the Saturn system. Read more

	April 13, 2012 Breaking the Ice on Icebergs It's been 100 years since the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. JPL scientists demystify these frozen mountains of floating ice. Read more

	April 13, 2012 Cassini to Dip into Enceladus Spray Again Less than three weeks after its last swoop over the Saturn moon, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns for an encore. Read more

	April 12, 2012 NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars Astronomers are hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Read more

	April 12, 2012 Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star New data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star Fomalhaut. Read more

	April 11, 2012 Live Public Talk: Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site Join us in person at JPL, or virtually via the Internet, on April 12 for a public talk about Gale Crater, landing site of NASA's next Mars rover. Read more

	April 10, 2012 NASA to Fly Atomic Clock to Improve Space Navigation NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock will improve the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and navigation data in real time. Read more

	April 9, 2012 NASA Views Our Perpetually Moving Ocean The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in a new NASA scientific visualization created with the help of JPL satellite and model data. Read more

	April 5, 2012 NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a result of the 2012 Senior Review of Astrophysics Missions. Read more

	April 4, 2012 Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision The cataclysmic history of a giant galaxy is on display in a new image that combines infrared and X-ray observations. Read more

	April 4, 2012 12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught In Act A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. Read more

	April 3, 2012 Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower. Read more

	April 2, 2012 NASA Announces 2012 Carl Sagan Fellows NASA has announced the 2012 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in the area of exoplanet research. Read more

	March 29, 2012 NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star The last exhalations of a dying star can be seen in a new image from NASA's SOFIA telescope. Read more

	March 28, 2012 Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturnian moons. Read more

	March 28, 2012 'Mount Sharp' on Mars Links Geology's Past and Future A stack of geological chapters in the history book of Mars has attracted NASA's big new rover and takes an informal name from a geologist with early Mars missions. Read more

	March 27, 2012 Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. Read more

	March 26, 2012 Mars-Bound NASA Craft Adjusts Path, Tests Instruments NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path today for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August. Read more

	March 26, 2012 Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly about 46 miles (74 kilometers) above the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. Read more

	March 22, 2012 NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day Premiering on New York's Times Square today to mark World Water Day: a new visualization of global groundwater depletion created using data from NASA's GRACE mission. Read more

	March 22, 2012 Cassini Mission Receives Air and Space Museum Award The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has bestowed its highest group honor, the Trophy for Current Achievement, on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn. Read more

	March 22, 2012 NASA's 'Eyes on the Earth' Gets Sharper Vision NASA's Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has introduced a new version of its "Eyes on the Earth" interactive virtual reality visualization. Read more

	March 22, 2012 NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Read more

	March 21, 2012 Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	March 19, 2012 Students and Robots Take to the Courts in Competition Student teams from California, Nevada, Brazil and Chile competed in the 21st annual Los Angeles regional FIRST competition this past weekend. Read more

	March 19, 2012 NASA's New 'Earth-Now' App: Your World, Unplugged A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. Read more

	March 19, 2012 Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus Direct observations linking the tidal pull of Saturn to jets on Enceladus are among highlights of NASA's Cassini mission discussed at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Read more

	March 19, 2012 Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Resumes Operations Cassini mission managers have received confirmation that the plasma spectrometer instrument was successfully turned on. Read more

	March 16, 2012 At 10, GRACE Continues Defying, and Defining, Gravity A decade after launch, NASA's GRACE space twins continue their orbital waltz, producing amazing science. Read more

	March 16, 2012 Launch of NASA's NuSTAR Mission Postponed The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. Read more

	March 15, 2012 Astronomers Find Cosmic Lenses with Feeding Black Holes Observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal several galaxies containing feeding black holes, called quasars, which are distorting the appearance of galaxies behind them. Read more

	March 15, 2012 Student-designed Robots Take on March Madness Sixty-six high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition. Read more

	March 14, 2012 NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. Read more

	March 14, 2012 Cassini Garners Top Honor From Air and Space Museum NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has received the top group honor from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum - the Trophy for Current Achievement. Representatives for Cassini will receive the trophy on March 21 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C. Read more

	March 12, 2012 Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere. Read more

	March 12, 2012 Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon Saturn's moon Rhea appears in glorious detail in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft Read more

	March 12, 2012 NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing Postponed The Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been postponed. Read more

	March 8, 2012 NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR Mission NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss the upcoming launch of an innovative X-ray telescope called NuSTAR. Read more

	March 8, 2012 NASA's Kepler Mission Wins Aviation Week Award NASA's Kepler mission has been named the winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category. Read more

	March 7, 2012 JPL Celebrates Women in Space Exploration In honor of Women's History Month, JPL is hosting an event on March 8 to recognize the success of women in science and engineering. Read more

	March 7, 2012 NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in a new image from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	March 7, 2012 Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy. Read more

	March 7, 2012 NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Data NASA's GRAIL twins have begun their science collection phase in lunar orbit. Read more

	March 6, 2012 Santa Monica High Tops Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl For the second straight year, Santa Monica High School beat longtime rival Arcadia High School to retain its title of Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl champions. Read more

	March 2, 2012 Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone NuSTAR is being encapsulated in its rocket nose cone, or fairing, which will protect it during launch, scheduled for no earlier than March 21. Read more

	March 2, 2012 Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers Community college students team up with NASA for a chance to design robotic rovers through the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program. Read more

	March 2, 2012 Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione, confirming the presence of a tenuous atmosphere. Read more

	March 1, 2012 NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants A NASA-led study finds Arctic sea ice loss may be intensifying release of bromine into the atmosphere, depleting ground-level ozone and depositing toxic mercury in the Arctic. Read more

	February 29, 2012 Camera on NASA Mars Odyssey Tops Decade of Discovery NASA's Mars Odyssey, the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, has now been sending home images for 10 years. Read more

	February 29, 2012 Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	February 28, 2012 Asteroid 2011 AG5 - A Reality Check Asteroid 2011 AG5 has been receiving a lot of attention lately because of a very unlikely scenario which would place it on an Earth-interception course 28 years from now. Read more

	February 28, 2012 Proposed Mars Mission Has New Name Proposed Discovery mission concept by JPL to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has a new name, InSight. Read more

	February 23, 2012 NASA Pinning Down Where 'Here' is Better Than Ever NASA is helping lead a global effort to upgrade systems used to determine a terrestrial reference frame for Earth and improve the accuracy of Earth observations from space. Read more

	February 23, 2012 The Many Moods of Titan Recent data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a shifting, Earth-like environment at Saturn's moon Titan. Read more

	February 22, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Read more

	February 21, 2012 NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower A new university study using data from NASA's Terra spacecraft finds Earth's clouds got about one percent lower on average during the first decade of the 2000s. Read more

	February 17, 2012 NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway. Read more

	February 17, 2012 NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. Read more

	February 14, 2012 NASA Aircraft to Trek Globe in 2012 for Earth Studies With missions scheduled throughout the year, 2012 is shaping up to be an extraordinary time for NASA's Airborne Science Program and JPL Earth system science research. Read more

	February 14, 2012 JPL and Caltech CubeSat Proposals Move Forward NASA selects 33 small satellites - including two from JPL in partnership with Caltech - to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014. Read more

	February 13, 2012 Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station An orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate. Read more

	February 13, 2012 Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. Read more

	February 9, 2012 3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake A new partially NASA-supported study of the April 2010 major quake near the California-Mexico border gives the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of a quake zone. Read more

	February 9, 2012 Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it. Read more

	February 8, 2012 New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers New color images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the agency's 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander and the lander that carried its rover Spirit to Mars in 2004. Read more

	February 8, 2012 NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice A new comprehensive University of Colorado-led study used gravity data from NASA's Grace mission to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level. Read more

	February 7, 2012 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. Read more

	February 7, 2012 Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup At least one object in photos NASA's Curiosity rover will transmit from Mars later this year will look familiar to all Americans: a Lincoln penny sent as a camera reference. Read more

	February 2, 2012 NASA's Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver. Read more

	February 1, 2012 NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. Read more

	January 30, 2012 JPL to Host High-Tech Small Business Conference JPL will host the 24th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Read more

	January 27, 2012 NASA Study Solves Case of Earth's 'Missing Energy' Inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating led NASA scientists to reexamine the data to solve the puzzle. Read more

	January 27, 2012 Mars-Bound Instrument Detects Solar Burst's Effects This week's solar storm is giving a NASA Mars-bound spacecraft a chance to gauge how such events would affect radiation exposure of future astronauts flying to Mars. Read more

	January 27, 2012 NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in California NASA's NuSTAR mission has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California, where it will be mated to its Pegasus rocket. Read more

	January 26, 2012 NASA's Kepler Announces 11 New Planetary Systems NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems with a combined total of 26 planets. The mission has discovered more than 60 planets and thousands of candidates. Read more

	January 25, 2012 Photo from NASA Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork Martian dunes and sand ripples of mixed shapes and sizes form a striking pattern in a recent image from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	January 25, 2012 Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice Roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold, with so little sunlight, that water ice could have survived there for billions of years. Read more

	January 25, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has been shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. Read more

	January 24, 2012 Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work On the eighth anniversary of starting to explore Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity remains busy with new investigations. Read more

	January 23, 2012 Cassini Sees the Two Faces of Titan's Dunes A new analysis of radar data reveals patterns tied to altitude and latitude. Read more

	January 18, 2012 NASA Sees Repeating La Niña Hitting its Peak La Niña is peaking, increasing the odds of more stormy winter and spring weather in the Pacific Northwest, with dry conditions in the southwestern and southern United States. Read more

	January 18, 2012 Revisiting the 'Pillars of Creation' The famous "Pillars of Creation" are seen in a new light by the Herschel Space Observatory. Read more

	January 17, 2012 Voyager Instrument Cooling After Heater Turned off The heater shut-off is a step in the careful management of diminishing electrical power. Read more

	January 17, 2012 Planck Telescope Warms up as Planned One of Planck's two instruments has warmed up as expected, completing its survey of the early universe. Read more

	January 17, 2012 Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Read more

	January 12, 2012 JPL Radar Treks to Great White North to Study Snow Measuring snow from space - it's a challenge NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission will tackle. Read more

	January 12, 2012 Cassini Testing Part of Its Radio System The spacecraft has been communicating with Earth using an auxiliary oscillator. Read more

	January 12, 2012 NASA and Students to Announce Names for Moon Probes NASA will host a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), on Jan. 17, to announce the names selected from a nationwide student contest for the twin GRAIL spacecraft. Read more

	January 11, 2012 Spacecraft Completes Biggest Maneuver NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars. Read more

	January 11, 2012 Study Shows Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets Our Milky Way galaxy contains, on average, a minimum of one planet for every star, according to a new statistical study. Read more

	January 11, 2012 NASA's Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. Read more

	January 10, 2012 Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New WISE Image A new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth. Read more

	January 10, 2012 Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Read more

	January 10, 2012 Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' Stardust The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	January 9, 2012 NASA Radar to Study Hawaii's Most Active Volcano A JPL-developed airborne radar has returned to the home of Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, to continue a study of one of Earth's most active volcanoes. Read more

	January 6, 2012 Mars Science Lab Maneuver Begins NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft has begun firing thruster engines for the first and largest flight-path adjustment of the trip from Earth to Mars. Read more

	January 5, 2012 'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover Researchers plan to keep NASA's Opportunity rover busy through Martian winter at a sun-facing site, "Greeley Haven," where a study of the planet's core has begun. Read more

	January 4, 2012 NASA Finds Russian Runoff Freshening Canadian Arctic A NASA study allays concerns melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing Arctic freshwater enough to impact the global 'ocean conveyor belt' that redistributes Earth's heat. Read more

	January 1, 2012 NASA's Twin Grail Spacecraft Reunite in Lunar Orbit The second of NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Read more