News Articles for 2011

	December 31, 2011 How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and 'Save the Dates' There are several major meteor showers to enjoy every year at various times, with some more active than others. Read more

	December 31, 2011 First of NASA's GRAIL Spacecraft Enters Moon Orbit The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit. Read more

	December 30, 2011 NASA's GRAIL-A Spacecraft 24 Hours Away From Moon NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft is within 24 hours of its insertion burn that will place it into lunar orbit. Read more

	December 28, 2011 NASA Twin Spacecraft on Final Approach for Moon Orbit NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit. Read more

	December 23, 2011 NASA Media Telecon on Probes' Moon Orbit Insertion NASA will hold a media telecon at 11 a.m. PST on Dec. 28, to preview twin spacecraft being placed in orbit around the moon for the New Year. Read more

	December 22, 2011 WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath Sprigs of holly, a big red bow and silver bells appear to dress up this cosmic star-forming wreath, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Read more

	December 22, 2011 NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images. Read more

	December 21, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time A remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. Read more

	December 21, 2011 Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. Read more

	December 20, 2011 NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. Read more

	December 19, 2011 Radar in Mars Orbit Maps North Polar Deposits An American-Italian radar instrument orbiting Mars has mapped the three-dimensional structure of layers beneath the surface in the planet's north polar region. Read more

	December 14, 2011 NASA: Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes By 2100, climate change will bring big changes to Earth's ecosystems, with many plants and animals facing increasing competition for survival, finds a new NASA/Caltech study. Read more

	December 13, 2011 NASA Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. Read more

	December 12, 2011 Portraits of Moons Captured by Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft finishes close flyby of the Saturnian moon Dione on the way to Titan. Read more

	December 12, 2011 NASA's Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations. Read more

	December 9, 2011 Student Inventors Kick it Into High Gear Twenty-three student teams used devices they built to kick a football into the can at the annual Invention Challenge, held at JPL Friday. Read more

	December 9, 2011 Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose What appears to be a giant red rose in space is all that's left of a star that exploded long ago. Read more

	December 9, 2011 Cassini to Make a Double Play NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be collecting images and data during close flybys of Saturn's moons Dione and Titan. Read more

	December 8, 2011 NASA Presents Software of the Year Award Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) software operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient. Read more

	December 7, 2011 NASA's Jason-1 Achieves a One-Decade Landmark In Greek mythology, Jason embarked on an epic quest for the Golden Fleece. Today, NASA's modern-day Jason-1 achieves its own heroic status, marking its 10th birthday. Read more

	December 7, 2011 NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Read more

	December 7, 2011 New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images It's now easier than ever to explore Mars in the great detail offered by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	December 5, 2011 New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta's 'Color Palette' New color data from NASA's Dawn mission give scientists an inside look at the chemical composition of giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	December 5, 2011 NASA Finds Japan Tsunami Waves Merged, Doubling Power NASA and university researchers have discovered the tsunami generated by the magnitude 9.0 quake off northeastern Japan in March 2011 was a long-hypothesized "merging tsunami" Read more

	December 5, 2011 NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet In Habitable Zone NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Read more

	December 5, 2011 NASA's Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Read more

	December 1, 2011 Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more. Read more

	December 1, 2011 What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye? NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtains the first-ever synthetic aperture radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus Read more

	December 1, 2011 NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. Read more

	November 30, 2011 Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3-D Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Read more

	November 30, 2011 NASA's Grace Helps Monitor U.S. Drought Data on groundwater storage from NASA's twin Grace satellites are now helping monitor droughts in Texas and elsewhere in the United States. Read more

	November 30, 2011 Trio of NASA Missions Named 'Best of What's New' NASA's Dawn, Mars Science Laboratory and MESSENGER missions have been honored by Popular Science magazine with "Best of What's New" Award in aviation and space. Read more

	November 26, 2011 NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Mars NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Read more

	November 26, 2011 Mars Science Laboratory in Good Health Engineers have received data from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory showing that all systems are operating normally. The approximately eight-month journey to Mars is underway. Read more

	November 21, 2011 NASA Updates Prelaunch Events for Mars Science Lab NASA has updated information about the news conferences and other events for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover launch. Read more

	November 17, 2011 NASA Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. Read more

	November 17, 2011 NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology NASA'S turning up the heat and weaving a path toward future exploration with development of new game-changing technologies. Read more

	November 16, 2011 Cassini Chronicles Life of Saturn's Giant Storm New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year. Read more

	November 16, 2011 NASA Probe Data Show Liquid Water Evidence on Europa NASA's Galileo mission data have provided evidence of what appears to be a subsurface body of liquid water, with a volume equal to the Great Lakes, on Jupiter's moon, Europa. Read more

	November 16, 2011 NASA Hosts 150 Twitter Followers at Mars Rover Launch NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter account to a two-day launch Tweetup on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more

	November 15, 2011 NASA Hosting Science Update About Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa NASA will host a Science Update at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) on Wednesday, Nov. 16, to discuss new theories concerning Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Read more

	November 14, 2011 Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Read more

	November 11, 2011 NASA Releases Updated Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 NASA Scientists working with the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. Read more

	November 10, 2011 The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared Light The Tarantula nebula can be seen here in a web of dust and multimillion-degree gas. Read more

	November 10, 2011 NASA Sets Mars Science Laboratory Launch Coverage The launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory with the Curiosity rover has been delayed one day, until Saturday, Nov. 26, at 7:02 a.m. PST (10:02 a.m. EST). Read more

	November 10, 2011 New Study Shows Very First Stars Not Monstrous The very first stars in our universe were not the behemoths scientists had once thought, according to new simulations performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Read more

	November 10, 2011 NASA Ready for November Launch of Car-Size Mars Rover NASA's most advanced mobile robotic laboratory, which will examine one of the mostintriguing areas on Mars, is in final preparations for a Nov. 25 launch from Florida. Read more

	November 8, 2011 NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. Read more

	November 8, 2011 NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Mars Rover Launch NASA will hold a news conference Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, with the largest and most capable rover going to another planet. Read more

	November 7, 2011 NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. Read more

	November 7, 2011 Cassini Flyby Focuses on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Saturn's moon Enceladus shows its icy face and famous plumes in raw, unprocessed images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its successful flyby on Nov. 6, 2011. Read more

	November 5, 2011 Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Read more

	November 3, 2011 NASA's Cassini Makes a New Pass at Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. Read more

	November 2, 2011 Where on Earth? Take the Quiz Test your skills as a geographical detective in the latest "Where on Earth?" quiz from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read more

	November 2, 2011 NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface. Read more

	October 31, 2011 'Mysteries' Slideshow Highlights Spooky Side of Space A disappearing Martian 'bunny,' the Saturn 'hex' and Jupiter's scar face are all featured in an all-new, mysterious slideshow from JPL's Education Office. Read more

	October 31, 2011 NASA Launches JPL-Built Earth Science Experiment The launch of NASA's newest Earth spacecraft also deployed a small research satellite with a JPL-built experiment that will prove technology for future Earth missions. Read more

	October 26, 2011 'Pacman' Nebula Gets Some Teeth When viewed in infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the "Pacman" nebula looks hungrier than usual. Read more

	October 26, 2011 NASA in Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. Read more

	October 25, 2011 NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice. Read more

	October 24, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. Read more

	October 20, 2011 National Academy of Engineering Honors JPL Director Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been honored by the National Academy of Engineering. Read more

	October 20, 2011 Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have detected for the first time cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star. Read more

	October 20, 2011 Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View This raw, unprocessed image of Enceladus and its jets was taken on Oct. 19, 2011. Read more

	October 20, 2011 Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting Russia has provided a neutron-shooting instrument called DAN that will enable NASA's next Mars rover to detect water-bearing minerals buried underneath the rover. Read more

	October 19, 2011 Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions Astronomers find a star with a companion as cool as Earth. Read more

	October 19, 2011 The Spark of a New Era Three-quarters of a century ago, a small team of banished rocketeers lit a fuse that would eventually carry America to every planet in the solar system. Read more

	October 19, 2011 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. Read more

	October 18, 2011 Orion's Belt Lights Up Cassini's View of Enceladus NASA's Cassini mission will take advantage of the position of two of the three stars in Orion's belt when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., Oct. 19. Read more

	October 17, 2011 NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. Read more

	October 12, 2011 NASA's Dawn Science Team Presents Early Science Results Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have provided details about the southern hemisphere of Vesta, which boasts one of the largest mountains in the solar system. Read more

	October 11, 2011 Caltech Event Marks 75th Anniversary of JPL Rocket Tests The 75th anniversary of the first rocket experiments at the site that became JPL will be celebrated with a free, public screening of a new documentary at Caltech on Oct. 25. Read more

	October 10, 2011 New View of Vesta Mountain From NASA's Dawn Mission A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	October 10, 2011 Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover A sequence of images, each taken at the end of a Martian day's drive, and a soundtrack from rover accelerometer data make a unique audio-visual record of a trek on Mars. Read more

	October 6, 2011 Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data Scientists are digging up planetary finds from old images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Read more

	October 6, 2011 NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. Read more

	October 5, 2011 Mars Science Laboratory Meets its Match in Florida In a "match made for Mars," major components of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory have been connected at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, several weeks before launch. Read more

	October 5, 2011 Space Observatory Provides Clues to Creation of Earth's Oceans Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. Read more

	October 3, 2011 NASA Invites Students to Name Moon-Bound Spacecraft NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. Read more

	October 3, 2011 NASA Mars Rovers Win Popular Mechanics 'Breakthrough' Award NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the team that made and operated them, will receive a lifetime achievement award from Popular Mechanics magazine this month. Read more

	October 3, 2011 Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice. Read more

	October 2, 2011 NASA Leads Study of Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Loss A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. Read more

	September 30, 2011 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins New Vesta Mapping Orbit NASA's Dawn spacecraft has completed a gentle spiral into its new science orbit for an even closer view of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	September 29, 2011 NASA-Funded Quake Forecast Gets High Score in Study A NASA-funded method for forecasting earthquakes in California has received high marks in a comparative study of seven earthquake forecasts. Read more

	September 29, 2011 NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies NASA has selected 11 science proposals, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for evaluation as potential future science missions. Read more

	September 29, 2011 NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought. Read more

	September 28, 2011 JPL Participates in Space-Themed Corn Maze The seven participating farms around the country planted and designed NASA-themed corn mazes. Read more

	September 28, 2011 NASA Announces Tweetup for Mars Rover Launch NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more

	September 26, 2011 NASA to Host News Conference on Asteroid Search Findings NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) on Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and implications for future research. Read more

	September 22, 2011 Aquarius Yields NASA's First Global Map of Ocean Salinity NASA's new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries. Read more

	September 21, 2011 Saturn's Moon Enceladus Spreads Its Influence Chalk up one more feat for Saturn's intriguing moon Enceladus. The small, dynamic moon spews out dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice -- first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Read more

	September 20, 2011 NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. Read more

	September 19, 2011 Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Remains a Mystery The family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit according to new observations. Read more

	September 16, 2011 NASA Announces Two Game-Changing Space Technology Projects NASA has selected two game-changing space technology projects for development. Read more

	September 16, 2011 Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures five Saturnian moons in one image. Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas, Rhea and Saturn's rings are depicted in crisp grayscale. Read more

	September 16, 2011 NASA's Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty from Vesta A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	September 15, 2011 NASA's Kepler Discovery Confirms First Planet Orbiting Two Stars The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. Read more

	September 15, 2011 Meteor Likely Cause of Southwest U.S. Light Show A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States. Read more

	September 14, 2011 NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore Mars' subsurface to map, for the first time, freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert. Read more

	September 14, 2011 NASA Rover Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour The second rock that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is examining in its new neighborhood offers a taste of bedrock. Read more

	September 14, 2011 NASA to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media Briefing NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission. Read more

	September 13, 2011 Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and Steady New findings from the Herschel Space Observatory paint a more tranquil picture of galaxy growth than previously thought. Read more

	September 12, 2011 Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011 A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Read more

	September 10, 2011 NASA Launches Mission to Study Moon From Crust to Core NASA's twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT)Saturday, Sept. 10. Read more

	September 10, 2011 NASA GRAIL Mission to the Moon Underway NASA's GRAIL mission to study the moon from crust to core successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Pad SLC-17B at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT). Read more

	September 10, 2011 Launch Postponed Until Saturday The launch of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission has been postponed until Saturday, Sept. 10, with the first opportunity at 5:29 a.m. PDT (8:29 a.m. EDT). Read more

	September 10, 2011 GRAIL Launch Milestones NASA's GRAIL mission blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Read more

	September 8, 2011 Orbiter Resumes Use of Camera Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks. Read more

	September 8, 2011 Tributes to Terrorism Victims are on Mars Two interplanetary memorials to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reside on Mars in tools from New York used by NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Read more

	September 8, 2011 NASA GRAIL Moon Mission Launch Rescheduled The launch of a Delta II vehicle carrying NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was scrubbed today, Thursday, Sept. 8, due to weather. Read more

	September 7, 2011 NASA Spacecraft Sees Wind-Whipped Fires in East Texas Some of the more than 170 major wildfires that have erupted throughout drought-stricken Texas in the past week are visible in this NASA satellite image of east Texas. Read more

	September 2, 2011 NASA Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool. Read more

	September 1, 2011 NASA Invites 150 Twitter Followers to Lunar Launch NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter accounts to a two-day launch Tweetup Sept. 7-8. Read more

	September 1, 2011 Aquarius Makes First Ocean Salt Measurements NASA's Aquarius instrument has successfully completed its commissioning phase and is now "tasting" the saltiness of Earth's ocean surface. Read more

	September 1, 2011 NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything it has studied in its first 7.5 years on Mars. Read more

	August 31, 2011 Launch Preparations Report NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project continues to press ahead with launch preparation activities, planning to use additional time before encapsulating the rover in the launch vehicle's nose cone. Read more

	August 30, 2011 Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth And Moon On its way to the biggest planet in the solar system -- Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft took time to capture its home planet and its natural satellite -- the moon. Read more

	August 30, 2011 NASA Announces Media Telecon About Opportunity Rover NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, Sept. 1, at 12:30 p.m. PDT (3:30 p.m. EDT) to discuss progress of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Read more

	August 28, 2011 NASA Satellite Shows a Mean Irene's Fury A new NASA satellite image highlights Irene's intense precipitation as it moved into New England on Aug. 28. Read more

	August 27, 2011 NASA/ISRO Image Shows Irene's Winds Before Landfall Hurricane Irene's wind speeds and wind directions are shown in a new satellite image taken shortly before landfall in North Carolina on Aug. 27. Read more

	August 26, 2011 Track Irene's Progress on NASA Hurricane Websites Large and powerful Hurricane Irene is poised to become the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Ike in 2008. Read more

	August 26, 2011 Cassini Closes in on Saturn's Tumbling Moon Hyperion NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn's oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with this cratered body on Thursday, Aug. 25. Read more

	August 25, 2011 NASA Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Read more

	August 24, 2011 NASA Sets GRAIL Launch Coverage Events NASA's GRAIL spacecraft is set to launch to the moon aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Sept. 8, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Read more

	August 23, 2011 NASA's Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body. Read more

	August 23, 2011 NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas While global sea level rise has been steady for most of the past two decades, every once in a while, such as this past year, it hits a speed bump. NASA scientists explain why. Read more

	August 22, 2011 NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion capabilities. Read more

	August 22, 2011 NASA Hosts News Conference on Upcoming Moon Mission NASA will host a news conference at 8 a.m. PDT on Thursday Aug. 25, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Read more

	August 19, 2011 New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured eye-catching images of Martian terrain from its new perch at Endeavour Crater. Read more

	August 18, 2011 Webb Telescope Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing An instrument designed to probe the early universe has undergone tests mimicking the harsh conditions of space. Read more

	August 18, 2011 NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster NASA's lunar-bound GRAIL twins were mated to their Delta II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17. Read more

	August 18, 2011 NASA Research Yields Full Map of Antarctic Ice Flow NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. Read more

	August 16, 2011 Comet Elenin Poses No Threat to Earth Comet Elenin, like most comets, is harmless. NASA scientists share the facts about Elenin, which will pass at a safe 22 million miles from Earth in October. Read more

	August 16, 2011 NASA Research Confirms it's a Small World, After All Our planet Earth is not expanding, as some scientists had previously speculated. Read more

	August 15, 2011 Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space. Read more

	August 11, 2011 Unusual Fault Pattern Surfaces in Earthquake Study Researchers have discovered a warped and complicated pattern in the depths of the faults that triggered an April 2010 earthquake in Mexico. Read more

	August 11, 2011 GRAIL Launch Less Than One Month Away GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B - completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. Read more

	August 11, 2011 NASA's Asteroid Photographer Beams Back Science Data NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now in its first science-collecting orbit at Vesta. Read more

	August 10, 2011 A Cosmic Inkblot Test What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space? Read more

	August 10, 2011 NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. Read more

	August 8, 2011 Putting it all Together on Titan Three of Titan's major surface features -- dunes, craters and the enigmatic Xanadu -- appear in this radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Read more

	August 8, 2011 NASA Mars Rover Approaches Long-Term Goal NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity may reach the rim of Endeavour crater in coming days. Read more

	August 5, 2011 NASA's Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) Friday to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Read more

	August 4, 2011 Juno Launch Milestones NASA's Juno spacecraft has successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage of its Atlas V rocket. It is on its way to Jupiter. Read more

	August 4, 2011 NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. Read more

	August 3, 2011 Juno Spacecraft to Carry Three Figurines to Jupiter Orbit NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will carry the 1.5-inch likeness of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno to Jupiter when the spacecraft launches on Aug. 5. Read more

	August 3, 2011 Juno Jupiter Mission to Carry Plaque Dedicated to Galileo A plaque dedicated to the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei will be carried to Jupiter aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. Read more

	August 3, 2011 NASA's Jupiter Probe Ready for Launch NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting ready to lift off on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Read more

	August 3, 2011 NASA Announces News Briefing on Mars Orbiter Science Finding NASA will host a news briefing on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) about a significant new Mars science finding. Read more

	August 1, 2011 NASA Invites Twitter Followers to Launch of Juno Spacecraft NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter account to a two-day launch Tweetup Aug. 4-5. Read more

	August 1, 2011 Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def When it comes to magnetic fields, Jupiter is the ultimate muscle car. NASA's Juno mission will help figure out how this mighty engine works. Read more

	August 1, 2011 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. Read more

	August 1, 2011 Herschel Telescope Detects Oxygen Molecules in Space The Herschel Space Observatory's large telescope and state-of-the-art infrared detectors have provided the first confirmed finding of oxygen molecules in space. Read more

	July 28, 2011 NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought New data from NASA's Aqua spacecraft highlight the extreme dryness that is currently gripping northeast Africa, contributing to spreading famine. Read more

	July 28, 2011 NASA's Dawn's Spacecraft Views Dark Side of Vesta NASA's Dawn mission, in orbit around Vesta, captures a new image from a distance of 3,200 miles (5,200) kilometers from the giant asteroid. Read more

	July 28, 2011 NASA to Unveil Vesta Images at News Conference NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1 to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's successful orbit insertion around Vesta and unveil images from Dawn's framing camera. Read more

	July 27, 2011 NASA's WISE Finds Earth's First Trojan Asteroid Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA's WISE mission have discovered the first known "Trojan" asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth. Read more

	July 27, 2011 NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Spacecraft Mated to its Rocket NASA's Juno spacecraft has completed a 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to its Cape Canaveral launch pad. Read more

	July 26, 2011 NASA Sets Launch Coverage Events for Mission to Jupiter NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to launch toward Jupiter aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Aug. 5. Read more

	July 25, 2011 NASA and Chevron Partner to Benefit the Energy Industry NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Chevron Corporation in San Ramon, Calif., have announced a partnership to develop a range of advanced technologies that can be used in harsh environments, both on Earth and in space. Read more

	July 22, 2011 NASA Briefing to Preview Upcoming Mission to Jupiter NASA will hold a news briefing on Wednesday, July 27 to discuss preparations for the upcoming Juno mission to Jupiter. Read more

	July 22, 2011 NASA Announces Launch Tweetup for GRAIL Moon Mission NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Sept. 7-8 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more

	July 22, 2011 Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Astronomers, including a team led by Matt Bradford of JPL, found a feeding black hole soaking in water vapor. Read more

	July 22, 2011 NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. Read more

	July 21, 2011 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Photo NASA's Dawn mission, in orbit around Vesta, captured the latest image from a distance of about 6,500 miles (10,500 kilometers) kilometers from the giant asteroid. Read more

	July 20, 2011 JPL Announces Personnel Appointments Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has announced three personnel appointments effective on Aug. 15. Read more

	July 20, 2011 Spitzer Sees Spider Web of Stars Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	July 19, 2011 NASA's Opportunity Tops 20 Miles of Mars Driving NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed a drive on July 17 that took the vehicle's total driving distance on Mars past 20 miles. Read more

	July 19, 2011 Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's Ring New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Read more

	July 19, 2011 Juno Processing Continues in Florida NASA's Juno spacecraft in final preparations for the opening of its launch period Aug. 5, 2011. Read more

	July 18, 2011 NASA to Announce Landing Site for New Mars Rover NASA and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce the selected landing site for the next Mars rover. Read more

	July 18, 2011 NASA Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. Read more

	July 16, 2011 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Read more

	July 14, 2011 Comet Hartley 2 Leaves a Bumpy Trail Comet Hartley 2 is a little bit like Hansel and Gretel, leaving behind a trail of ice crumbs as it circles the sun. Read more

	July 14, 2011 NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15 On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. Read more

	July 7, 2011 Dawn Team Members Check out Spacecraft Mission managers for NASA's Dawn spacecraft are studying the spacecraft's ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of thrust on June 27. Read more

	July 7, 2011 Gas Giant Spacecraft All Gassed Up NASA's Juno spacecraft is in the final preparation stages for its mission to Jupiter. Read more

	July 7, 2011 Herschel Helps Solve Mystery of Cosmic Dust Origins New observations from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory reveal that an exploding star expelled the equivalent of between 160,000 and 230,000 Earth masses of fresh dust. Read more

	July 6, 2011 Cassini Captures Images and Sounds of Saturn Storm Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. Read more

	July 5, 2011 NASA's Spacecraft T-Minus One Month to Jupiter Period NASA's Juno spacecraft is one month away from the opening of its launch period. Read more

	June 30, 2011 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	June 29, 2011 La Niña's Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo The Pacific Ocean is currently in between its periodic El Niño and La Niña climate patterns. And that generally means headaches for weather and climate forecasters. Read more

	June 29, 2011 Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion The universe sports a pair of infrared shades, as seen in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	June 24, 2011 Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011 An asteroid designated 2011 MD will safely pass Earth in the early morning hours. Read more

	June 24, 2011 Juno Blanket Check Juno undergoes testing prior to its August launch to Jupiter. Read more

	June 24, 2011 New Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action A new, high-definition animation of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission combines real scenes of Mars with spacecraft events such as landing on Mars and drilling into rocks. Read more

	June 24, 2011 NASA to Host Launch Tweetup for Jupiter-Bound Mission NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Aug. 4-5 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more

	June 23, 2011 NASA Mission Suggests Sun and Planets Constructed Differently Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought. Read more

	June 23, 2011 Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. Read more

	June 23, 2011 NASA Mars Rover Arrives in Florida After Cross-Country Flight NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall. Read more

	June 22, 2011 Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Read more

	June 21, 2011 Astronomers Investigate Galactic Crash A team of scientists, including Jason Rhodes and Leonidas Moustakas of JPL, has pieced together the violent history of a galactic pile-up. Read more

	June 21, 2011 Radar for Mars Gets Flight Tests at NASA Dryden In a series of diving flights, an F/A-18 aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California is carrying a test model of the radar for the next landing on Mars. Read more

	June 20, 2011 NASA Hosts Preview of Visit to Large Asteroid NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, June 23, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's year-long visit to the large asteroid Vesta. Read more

	June 20, 2011 Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. Read more

	June 16, 2011 Science Paper Details NASA Epoxi Flyby of Hyper Comet NASA's EPOXI mission found that Comet Hartley 2 is a hyperactive little comet, spewing out more water than most other comets its size. Read more

	June 15, 2011 Plasma Spectrometer Operations on Hold Mission managers for NASA's Cassini spacecraft have suspended operation of the Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Read more

	June 15, 2011 A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Has the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, belongs to the cosmos. Read more

	June 15, 2011 Recalculating the Distance to Interstellar Space Data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft suggest Voyager could reach the space between stars sooner than previously thought. Read more

	June 14, 2011 New Insights on How Solar Minimums Affect Earth Since 1611, humans have recorded the comings and goings of black spots on the sun. Read more

	June 13, 2011 NASA's Curiosity Continues Mobility Checkouts America's next Mars rover, Curiosity, has been driving and moving its arm during its final weeks at its California birthplace. Read more

	June 13, 2011 Dawn Captures Video on Approach to Asteroid Vesta Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt. Read more

	June 10, 2011 NASA's 'Age of Aquarius' Dawns With California Launch NASA's 'Age of Aquarius' dawned Friday with the launch of an international satellite carrying the agency's Aquarius instrument set to measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans. Read more

	June 9, 2011 Aquarius/SAC-D Launch Mission Status Update The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory has successfully separated from its rocket, ground controllers have acquired its signal, and its solar arrays have been deployed. Read more

	June 9, 2011 Probes Suggest Magnetic Bubbles at Solar System Edge Observations from NASA's Voyager spacecraft suggest the edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles. Read more

	June 9, 2011 What's Your Salt IQ? Find out how much you know about salt in the ocean, a topic that will be studied by NASA's Aquarius instrument, launching on an international spacecraft. Read more

	June 8, 2011 NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D Launch Rescheduled The launch of the international Aquarius/SAC-D mission is postponed 24 hours until Friday, June 10, from NASA's Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Read more

	June 8, 2011 Opportunity Heads Toward 'Spirit Point' NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is driving toward a destination informally named "Spirit Point" in honor of the rover's twin. Read more

	June 7, 2011 NASA Goes Below the Surface to Understand Salinity NASA's Aquarius, launching this week, will take a "skin" reading of ocean salt content. To better understand what's driving salinity changes, scientists will go deeper. Read more

	June 2, 2011 Opportunity Passes Small Crater and Big Milestone After a recent encounter with a young crater, NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) in total driving yesterday (June 1). Read more

	June 2, 2011 New NASA Salt Mapper to Spice Up Climate Forecasts Just as ancient Greeks believed they could tell the future by reading patterns in sprinkled salt, NASA's Aquarius mission will use salt to foresee Earth's future climate. Read more

	June 1, 2011 Tweetup at NASA's JPL Previews 2011 Missions JPL will host a Tweetup on Monday, June 6, for more than 100 NASA Twitter followers, who registered in April. Portions will be broadcast live. Read more

	May 31, 2011 A Night with the Stars...in a Conference Room Astronomers no longer peer through telescopes up at the night sky. The wonders of the universe can now be accessed right from a laptop. Read more

	May 31, 2011 Camera Duo on Mars Rover Mast Will Shoot Color Views The main science imaging instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines telephoto and wider-angle full-color cameras to see surroundings in detail and in motion. Read more

	May 31, 2011 New NASA Map Reveals Tropical Forest Carbon Storage A NASA-led team has used NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. Read more

	May 27, 2011 Juno Solar Panels Complete Testing The solar panels for NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft have completed testing, as launch preparations continue. Read more

	May 26, 2011 JPL-Developed Clean Energy Technology Moves Forward A clean, efficient technology to generate grid-independent electricity from methanol, developed by a JPL team in partnership with USC, has been licensed to a private company. Read more

	May 26, 2011 Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant Star Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	May 25, 2011 NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars NASA's Mars rover Spirit, which overcame many obstacles during a prolonged lifetime to achieve discoveries about water and environments on ancient Mars, has finished its work. Read more

	May 25, 2011 Teasing Apart Galaxy Collisions Astronomers are picking through the wreckage of galactic collisions to better understand the destruction, and the creation of new stars. Read more

	May 25, 2011 NASA's WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to Come An assorted mix of colorful galaxies is being released today by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, or WISE. Read more

	May 25, 2011 For Aquarius, Sampling Seas No 'Grain of Salt' Task Twenty years after scientists first recognized that precise measurements of ocean salinity from space were possible, NASA's Aquarius mission is poised to realize their dream. Read more

	May 24, 2011 NASA Concludes Attempts to Contact Mars Rover Spirit NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010. Read more

	May 24, 2011 Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell. Read more

	May 23, 2011 NASA's Twin Craft Arrive in Florida for Moon Mission Two NASA spacecraft with a date for lunar orbit early next year have arrived in Florida to prepare for a launch in September. Read more

	May 19, 2011 NASA/University Japan Quake Study Yields Surprises A new NASA and university study of Japan’s massive March quake yields surprises on how the quake’s energy and stress were distributed in the region. Read more

	May 19, 2011 NASA's Two Lunar-Bound Spacecraft, Vacuum-Packed NASA twin GRAIL spacecraft have completed pre-shipment assembly and testing. Read more

	May 19, 2011 Cassini and Telescope See Violent Saturn Storm NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere that is so powerful it stretches around the entire planet. Read more

	May 19, 2011 NASA Telescope Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. Read more

	May 18, 2011 Mars Rover Driving Leaves Distinctive Tracks A dance-step pattern visible in wheel tracks imprinted recently by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity results from use of an autonomous hazard-checking technique. Read more

	May 18, 2011 Free-Floating Planets May be More Common Than Stars Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. Read more

	May 17, 2011 NASA Mission Will Observe Earth's Salty Seas Final preparations are under way for the June 9 launch of the international Aquarius/SAC-D observatory. Read more

	May 16, 2011 JPL Shares Excitement of Exploration at Open House This year's Open House, "The Excitement of Exploration," attracted more than 38,000 space enthusiasts to JPL over the two-day event. Read more

	May 13, 2011 Virtual Open House: Next Best Thing to Being Here Can't make it to this year's annual Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Not a problem! Join our virtual event live on Ustream.tv on Saturday, May 14. Read more

	May 13, 2011 Mars Mission Components Delivered to Florida The aeroshell and cruise stage for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Thursday night from California and Colorado. Read more

	May 12, 2011 JPL Facility has Built Famed Spacecraft for 50 Years The Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has birthed robotic explorers sent to destinations throughout the solar system over the past five decades. Read more

	May 12, 2011 Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. Read more

	May 12, 2011 NASA Announces News Briefing on Aquarius/Sac-D Mission NASA will hold a news briefing on Tuesday, May 17, at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), on the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, Aquarius/SAC-D, scheduled to launch on June 9. Read more

	May 11, 2011 Aquarius to Illuminate Links Between Salt, Climate A new age of satellite studies of Earth dawns this June with the launch of NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument. Read more

	May 11, 2011 NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Read more

	May 5, 2011 NASA Administrator Visits Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft NASA administrator Charlie Bolden visited the space agency's next mission to Jupiter on Thursday. Read more

	May 5, 2011 NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time. Read more

	May 4, 2011 Comet Elenin: Preview of a Coming Attraction A visitor from the outer reaches of our solar system might sound ominous. But comets do this all the time. Read more

	May 4, 2011 Be Our Guest: JPL Invites Public to Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read more

	May 4, 2011 Mars Tribute Marks Memories of Shepard's Flight A relatively young crater on Mars informally bears the name of the Freedom 7 spacecraft that astronaut Alan Shepard piloted in America's first human spaceflight 50 years ago. Read more

	May 3, 2011 NASA Space Images App, Website Broaden Cosmic Horizons Professional and amateur space aficionados are in for a treat with the new Space Images Version 2 app, created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena Calif. Read more

	May 3, 2011 Two NASA Sites Win Webby Awards Two NASA websites have been recognized in the 15th Annual Webby Awards Read more

	May 3, 2011 Dawn Reaches Milestone Approaching Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has reached its official approach phase to the asteroid Vesta and will begin using cameras for the first time to aid navigation. Read more

	May 2, 2011 Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall NASA spacecraft have already flown past comets and asteroids, and now Earth itself will "fly by" an object that will provide NASA scientists a unique observing opportunity. Read more

	April 28, 2011 Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space Humanity's Farthest Spacecraft: Expect the Unexpected Read more

	April 27, 2011 Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission Here are five things you should know about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the longest continuously-operating spacecraft in deep space. Read more

	April 26, 2011 NASA Technology Looks Inside Japan's Nuclear Reactor The seeds from JPL rover technology are being used to examine buildings inside Japan's damaged nuclear plant. Read more

	April 26, 2011 NASA Invites Public to Journey Toward Interstellar Space NASA will hold a special NASA Science Update at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 28, to discuss the unprecedented journey of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our solar system. Read more

	April 21, 2011 JPL Tweetup Previews Missions: Mars, Jupiter and More NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a Tweetup for approximately 120 Twitter followers on Monday, June 6. Read more

	April 21, 2011 NASA Orbiter Reveals Big Changes in Mars' Atmosphere NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered the total amount of atmosphere on Mars changes dramatically as the tilt of the planet's axis varies. Read more

	April 21, 2011 Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies. Read more

	April 20, 2011 NASA Marks Earth Day With Online Activities, Programs NASA uses the vantage point of space to explore and protect our home planet. Join scientists from JPL and throughout NASA in online activities in celebration of Earth Day. Read more

	April 20, 2011 Cassini Sees Saturn Electric Link With Enceladus NASA is releasing the first images and sounds of an electrical connection between Saturn and one of its moons, Enceladus. Read more

	April 19, 2011 JPL Director Charles Elachi Receives Multiple Honors The director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles Elachi, is receiving multiple awards and honors this year in the United States and overseas. Read more

	April 14, 2011 Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera An amateur astronomer's video of a newly discovered near-Earth object shows the space rock to be tumbling at a fast rate. Read more

	April 14, 2011 WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's WISE mission. Read more

	April 13, 2011 Do Cosmic Strings of Gas Come From Sonic Booms? The Herschel Space Observatory has found evidence that tangled filaments in space may be shaped by sonic booms. Read more

	April 12, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. Read more

	April 11, 2011 Mars Rover's 'Gagarin' Moment Applauded Exploration Approaching the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, Mars rover team members are remembering a Martian rock informally named for Yuri Gagarin. Read more

	April 8, 2011 NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives in Florida NASA's Juno spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch this summer. Read more

	April 8, 2011 WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' Asteroid Astronomers using data from NASA's WISE mission have found an asteroid that appears to slowly trace out a horseshoe shape in space, as seen from Earth. Read more

	April 7, 2011 New Theory: Titan Shaped By Weather, Not Ice Volcanoes Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon Titan recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? Read more

	April 7, 2011 NASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. Read more

	April 6, 2011 For NASA's Aquarius, Quest for Salt a Global Endeavor With more than a few stamps on its passport, NASA's Aquarius instrument will soon embark on its space mission to "taste" Earth's salty ocean. Read more

	April 6, 2011 NASA's Next Mars Rover Nears Completion New images show Curiosity, the rover for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, looking similar to how it will appear after it lands on Mars in August 2012. Read more

	April 4, 2011 NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are experiencing a time delay. Read more

	April 1, 2011 The Art of Making Stars A swirling palette of star-forming clouds can be seen in this picturesque image from WISE. Read more

	April 1, 2011 NASA Airborne Radar Set to Image Hawaiian Volcano The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes under Earth's surface. Read more

	March 31, 2011 Salt-Seeking Spacecraft Arrives at Launch Site An international spacecraft that will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Read more

	March 31, 2011 Forensic Sleuthing Ties Ring Ripples to Impacts Scientists using data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced ripples in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter back to collisions with cometary fragments. Read more

	March 29, 2011 When is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? When it's Vesta! On the anniversary of Vesta's discovery day, NASA's Dawn mission celebrates this extraordinary hunk of rock. Read more

	March 29, 2011 NASA Announces 2011 Carl Sagan Fellows NASA announces the 2011 Carl Sagan Fellowships, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. Read more

	March 28, 2011 Future Engineers Unite at Robotics Competition Multiple student teams from across California, and one team from Chile, participated in the 20th annual Los Angeles regional FIRST competition this past weekend. Read more

	March 25, 2011 Work Stopped on Alternative Cameras for Mars Rover The main camera instrument for the next rover to Mars will use a pair of cameras with different focal lengths, already installed and tested, rather than twin zoom cameras. Read more

	March 24, 2011 NASA's Venerable Comet Hunter Wraps Up Mission At 33 minutes after 4 p.m. PDT today, NASA's Stardust spacecraft finished its last transmission to Earth. Read more

	March 23, 2011 NASA's Stardust: Good to the Last Drop NASA's most traveled comet hunter goes out in style with one final burn of its rocket motors. Read more

	March 23, 2011 Stinky Origins to Life? New Analysis Yields Clues The origins of life may have been smelly, according to a recent, NASA-funded analysis of residue from 1950s classic experiments performed by a researcher, Stanley Miller. Read more

	March 22, 2011 Juno Marches On NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft, Juno, is undergoing testing prior to shipment to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Read more

	March 22, 2011 Cassini Finds Saturn Sends Mixed Signals Radio signals from Saturn's northern and southern hemisphere sing out of sync and have crossed each other since the planet's equinox. Read more

	March 21, 2011 Dawn Opens its Eyes, Checks its Instruments In preparation for orbiting Vesta this summer, the spacecraft's camera system and other instruments have successfully awakened from hibernation. Read more

	March 18, 2011 Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way A view from the bustling center of our galactic metropolis. Spitzer Space Telescope offers us a fresh, infrared view of the frenzied scene at the center of our Milky Way, revealing what lies behind the dust. Read more

	March 18, 2011 Alternatives Have Begun in Bid to Hear from Spirit Hopes for reviving NASA's Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover's locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year. Read more

	March 18, 2011 Next Mars Rover Gets a Test Taste of Mars Conditions For most of this month, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity, is inside a sealed chamber where conditions simulate those it will experience on Mars. Read more

	March 17, 2011 Madrid Event Marks Spain's Role in Next Mars Mission Governments of the United States and Spain saluted collaboration in the Mars Science Laboratory mission with an agreement-signing ceremony today, March 17, in Madrid. Read more

	March 17, 2011 Cassini Sees Seasonal Rains Transform Titan's Surface As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed by Cassini. Read more

	March 16, 2011 NASA Picks a Festive Clover of Ireland Images Just in time for St. Patty's Day, NASA's Aqua satellite finds a "pot of gold" in colorful images of Ireland. Read more

	March 16, 2011 Students Compete in Lego Robotics Challenge at JPL Students from across Southern California participated in a Lego robotics challenge at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read more

	March 15, 2011 NASA Satellite Sees Area Affected by Japan Tsunami A new before-and-after image pair from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a region northeast of Sendai, Japan, affected by the March 11, 2011, tsunami. Read more

	March 14, 2011 Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. Read more

	March 12, 2011 NASA Images Tsunami's Effects on Northeastern Japan Flooding from the destructive tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011 quake off Japan's northeastern coast is visible in before/after images from NASA's Terra spacecraft. Read more

	March 11, 2011 NASA Shows Topography of Tsunami-Damaged Japan City A new image based on NASA radar data from 2000 shows the mostly low-lying topography of Sendai, Japan, devastated by the March 11, 2011, 8.9-magnitue earthquake and tsunami. Read more

	March 10, 2011 Speed Demon Creates a Shock WISE has captured a star zipping through space like a race car driver. Read more

	March 10, 2011 Dawn Gets Vesta Target Practice Practice mapping of Vesta produces an animation and still images that show scientists' best guess about the surface and shape of the giant asteroid. Read more

	March 9, 2011 NASA Study Goes to Earth's Core for Climate Insights The latest evidence of the role humans play in changing Earth's climate comes not from observations of the ocean, atmosphere or land surface, but from Earth's molten core. Read more

	March 9, 2011 Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago tomorrow, March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. Read more

	March 9, 2011 Color View from Orbit Shows Mars Rover Beside Crater A new color view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter catches the rover Opportunity at work beside a football-field-size crater which the rover will soon leave behind. Read more

	March 8, 2011 Some of Mars' Missing Carbon Dioxide May be Buried Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be. Read more

	March 8, 2011 NASA Finds Polar Ice Adding More to Rising Seas The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. Read more

	March 8, 2011 Voyager Seeks the Answer Blowin' in the Wind In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? Read more

	March 7, 2011 NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Taking Shape In Denver NASA's Juno spacecraft is undergoing final testing before shipment to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch this summer. Read more

	March 7, 2011 Cassini Finds Enceladus is a Powerhouse Heat output from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus is much greater than was previously thought possible. Read more

	March 4, 2011 'Elephant Trunks' in Space A new image from NASA's WISE mission shows a zoo of "elephant trunks" herded together in a star-forming region. Read more

	March 3, 2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame Taps Former JPL Engineer The National Inventors Hall of Fame is honoring a former JPL physicist/engineer for a sensor chip used in cell phone and other digital cameras, and medical imaging. Read more

	March 3, 2011 Double Vision: NASA Earth Satellites Prep for Launch Rockets for two NASA missions stand at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for launch of NASA's newest Earth satellites: Glory on March 4, and Aquarius in June. Read more

	March 3, 2011 Spitzer Captures Infrared Rays From a Sunflower A galactic sunflower shows off its infrared colors in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	February 24, 2011 NASA Spacecraft Images New Zealand Quake Region Two new images from NASA's Terra spacecraft show the region devastated this week by New Zealand's most destructive earthquake in 80 years. Read more

	February 18, 2011 Can WISE Find the Hypothetical 'Tyche'? This colorful picture is a mosaic of the Lagoon nebula taken by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Read more

	February 18, 2011 Advanced NASA Instrument Gets Close-up on Mars Rocks NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will take a next generation "hands-on" look at rocks and soils to determine the chemical makeup near its landing zone. Read more

	February 17, 2011 Cassini to Sample Magnetic Environment around Titan Skimming close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18 will teach scientists about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere. Read more

	February 16, 2011 Herschel Measures Dark Matter for Star-Forming Galaxies The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed how much dark matter it takes to form a new galaxy bursting with stars. Read more

	February 15, 2011 NASA Releases Images of Man-Made Crater on Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. Read more

	February 15, 2011 Comet Hunter's First Images on the Ground JPL Mission controllers have begun receiving the first of 72 anticipated images of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Read more

	February 14, 2011 NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. Read more

	February 14, 2011 Happy Valentine's Day from Mars Hearty thoughts are prompted by the image of a crater in the Arabia Terra region of Mars, taken by the Conext Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more

	February 14, 2011 NASA's Stardust-NExT: Valentine's Night Comet Flyby As of about 10 p.m. PST (1 a.m. EST on Feb. 15), NASA's Stardust spacecraft has turned to point its high-gain antenna at Earth and started downlinking data through that antenna. Read more

	February 14, 2011 The Two Faces of Tempel 1 Whichever part of comet Tempel 1 is facing toward Stardust when the spacecraft zips by the comet tonight should provide some great new science. Read more

	February 10, 2011 Five Things About NASA's Valentine's Day Comet Here are five facts about NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft as it prepares for a Valentine's "date" with comet Tempel 1. Feel free to sing along! Read more

	February 10, 2011 JPL Airborne Sensor to Study 'Rivers in the Sky' An advanced JPL sensor is embarking on a NOAA-led airborne field campaign to study atmospheric rivers - narrow regions in the sky that transport huge amounts of water vapor. Read more

	February 10, 2011 New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more

	February 9, 2011 Heading Into the Bonus Round -- in Space Stardust-NExT, history's most traveled comet hunter, has a rich legacy of space firsts. Read more

	February 9, 2011 NASA Announces Candidates for Cubesat Space Missions NASA has selected 20 small satellites, including two from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2011 and 2012. Read more

	February 8, 2011 NASA Hosting Events for Valentine's Night Comet Encounter NASA will host several live activities for the Stardust-NExT mission's close encounter with comet Tempel 1. Read more

	February 8, 2011 Santa Monica High 'Catches Next Wave' to Nationals In a very close competition, Santa Monica High School beat Arcadia High School for the title of Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl Champion. Read more

	February 8, 2011 Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn NASA's Stardust-NExT mission team on Earth marked the spacecraft's 12th anniversary in space with a flight path correction maneuver. Read more

	February 4, 2011 Proposed Mission to Jupiter System Achieves Milestone NASA-ESA Proposal to Study the Moons Europa and Ganymede Maps Joint Strategy. Read more

	February 3, 2011 Surprise Hidden in Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Scientists report details about thin, wispy clouds of ice particles, similar to Earth's cirrus clouds, on Saturn's largest moon, smoggy Titan. Read more

	February 3, 2011 Northern Mars Landscape Actively Changing Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. Read more

	February 2, 2011 JPL to Host High-Tech Small Business Conference JPL will host the 23rd annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business March 1-2, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Read more

	February 2, 2011 Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found in Habitable Zone NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and candidates in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Read more

	February 1, 2011 NASA Satellite Captures U.S. 'Big Chill' On the eve of Groundhog Day 2011, a massive winter storm spreading across America will make it hard for Punxsutawney Phil, and 100 million Americans. Read more

	February 1, 2011 Monster Cyclone Yasi Eyes Australia in NASA Image Australians are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Yasi, forecast to be the strongest cyclone in the continent's recorded history. Read more

	February 1, 2011 NASA Stardust Adjusts Flight Path for Comet Meetup NASA's Stardust spacecraft has executed a rocket burn to refine its flight path toward a Valentine's Day comet encounter. Read more

	February 1, 2011 Cassini Sends Back Postcards of Saturn Moons Portraits of Helene, Enceladus and Mimas Read more

	February 1, 2011 NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. Read more

	January 31, 2011 NASA Satellite Tracks Menacing Australian Cyclone Tropical Cyclone Yasi continues to advance toward Australia's flood-weary state of Queensland, still reeling from devastating floods that began last December. Read more

	January 26, 2011 NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine NASA's Stardust spacecraft is closing in on a Valentine's Day date with comet Tempel 1. Read more

	January 26, 2011 Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely from Rocky Body A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two recent papers. Read more

	January 26, 2011 An Astronomer's Field of Dreams A group of JPL researchers and their colleagues will hunt for new and exotic objects in the sky by using ceiling-fan-size antennas. Read more

	January 24, 2011 Runaway Star Plows Through Space Can you tell which way the central, bright blue star is traveling in this new image from WISE? Read more

	January 24, 2011 NASA's Salt-Seeking Instrument Gets a Silvery Blanket NASA technicians are busy prepping for the dawning of the age of Aquarius/SAC-D, the mission. Read more

	January 24, 2011 Arcadia High School Wins Regional Science Bowl Arcadia High School beat out 22 other local high schools in an all day 'buzzer-beater'-style competition held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read more

	January 21, 2011 Voyager Celebrates 25 Years Since Uranus Visit In 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet from the sun. Read more

	January 20, 2011 Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary The team operating NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will temporarily suspend commanding for 16 days after the rover's seventh anniversary next week, but the rover will stay busy. Read more

	January 19, 2011 Lunar Eclipse Wallpaper Contest Yields Hundreds of Photos A winning photo has been chosen for NASAJPL's "I'm There: Lunar Eclipse" wallpaper contest from an entry pool of close to 2,000 images. Read more

	January 19, 2011 Half a Million Take a Gander at Space The first-ever NASA/JPL iPhone application, Space Images, has reached 500,000 downloads, just as JPL prepares to release its newest version of the free app. Read more

	January 19, 2011 NASA Spacecraft Prepares for Valentine's Day Comet Rendezvous NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 at approximately 8:37 p.m. PST (11:37 p.m. EST), on Feb. 14. Read more

	January 18, 2011 NASA Mars Rover Will Check for Ingredients of Life One of the jobs for the biggest science instrument on NASA's next Mars rover will be to check for the carbon-based molecular building blocks of life. Read more

	January 13, 2011 Cassini Rocks Rhea Rendezvous NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning raw images of the icy moon's surface. Read more

	January 13, 2011 Partner Galaxies Wildly Different In New WISE Image NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies -- a somewhat tranquil spiral beauty and its rambunctious partner. Read more

	January 12, 2011 Cassini's Snaps of Rhea Coming Down Raw images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from the closest flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea have begun streaming to Cassini's raw image page. Read more

	January 12, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today. Read more

	January 12, 2011 Cosmology Standard Candle not so Standard After All Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once thought. Read more

	January 11, 2011 NASA Radar Reveals Features on Asteroid This 36-frame video, from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, depicts the rotation of asteroid JL33 - an irregular, elongated object roughly 1.8 kilometers (1.1) miles wide. Read more

	January 11, 2011 Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday from initial maps of the entire sky. Read more

	January 11, 2011 Web-Streamed Event Will Cover Mars Science Findings Scientists will discuss recent discoveries about Mars and future Mars exploration at a Jan. 13 event to be streamed live and archived. Read more

	January 10, 2011 Cassini to Probe Rhea for Clues to Saturn Rings Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. Read more

	January 10, 2011 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. Read more

	January 7, 2011 NASA Image Shows La Niña-Caused Woes Down Under While La Niña hasn't lived up to her usual dry billing this season in Southern California, elsewhere she's behaving as expected, which, in the case of Australia, means badly. Read more

	January 6, 2011 Extreme Planet Makeover The new "Extreme Planet Makeover" on the NASA/JPL PlanetQuest site lets you roll up your sleeves and create your very own planet. Read more

	January 5, 2011 Andromeda is So Hot 'n' Cold Cool, dusty arms spiral around an explosive center in this new image of the Andromeda galaxy from the Herschel and XMM-Newton telescopes. Read more

	January 4, 2011 NASA Checking on Rover Spirit During Martian Spring Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends on southern Mars in mid-March. Read more

	January 4, 2011 Rover Will Spend 7th Birthday at Stadium-Size Crater NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity beside a crater where the rover will spend the seventh anniversary of its landing. Read more

	January 4, 2011 Developers Support JPL-Led Software Architecture A JPL-developed software architecture has been selected by the Apache Software Foundation to become a Top Level Project. Read more