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NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.Read more

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Mars 2020 Is Coming Together

An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet.Read more

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Seasonal Monsoon Rains Block Key Ocean Current

A major ocean current connecting the Pacific and Indian oceans slows dramatically during northwest Asia Monsoon season. Now, scientists have figured out why.Read more

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Oscar Avalos Dreams in Titanium

As wide-eyed visitors descend on the machine shop at Explore JPL, 36-year veteran and group lead Oscar Avalos will be there to greet them-and maybe help change a life the way the shop once saved his own.Read more

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Planet-Hunter CubeSat Images Los Angeles

The only small satellite in orbit that can also look for new planets beyond the solar system, ASTERIA recently peered down at Earth to capture an image of a star-filled city.Read more

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Video: Fly over Mount Sharp on Mars

A new animation shows the region NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring and where its team wants to go in the future.Read more

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| May 13, 2019

High-resolution images show the Moon's lava plains are part of a much younger, shifting landscape than scientists realized.

New surface features of the Moon

Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon

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| May 2, 2019

What's up in the May sky? A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley's Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs and a "blue moon" on May 18th.

What's Up - May 2019

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| May 9, 2019

Engineers and technicians at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, integrate the rover motor controller assembly (RMCA) into the Mars 2020 rovers body.

Engineers and technicians at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, integrate the rover motor controller assembly (RMCA) into the Mars 2020 rovers body.

Rover Getting Set to Motor

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| May 15, 2019

A new animation shows the region NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring and where its team wants to go in the future.

This animation shows a proposed route for NASA's Curiosity rover

Video: Fly over Mount Sharp on Mars

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| May 15, 2019

After spending the better part of a year exploring Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has moved to a new part of Mount Sharp.

NASA’s Curiosity Finds Climate Clues on a Martian Mountain

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| March 21, 2019

This striking view of Jupiters Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASAs Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.

This striking view of Jupiters Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASAs Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.

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| May 15, 2019

The orbiting spacecraft is also about to set a record for data relayed from the Martian surface.

This series of images shows carbon dioxide ice sublimating

NASA's MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars

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| December 10, 2018

Forty-one years after it launched into space, NASA's Voyager 2 probe has exited our solar bubble and entered the region between stars.

Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space

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| May 9, 2019

Engineers and technicians at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, integrate the rover motor controller assembly (RMCA) into the Mars 2020 rovers body.

Engineers and technicians at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, integrate the rover motor controller assembly (RMCA) into the Mars 2020 rovers body.

Rover Getting Set to Motor

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JPL is the leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system, and has 19 spacecraft and 10 major instruments carrying out planetary, Earth science and space-based astronomy missions.

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Download free 2019 JPL Anniversary calendar

Download our calendar and celebrate space exploration with us.

Eighty two years ago, seven young men drove out to a dry canyon wash in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and helped jump-start the Space Age. Discover more from JPL's 82-year history of daring mighty things with our free calendar. It features photos from JPL and NASA history as well as key anniversaries and happenings at the Laboratory. Click here to download.

Artist's concept of an Exoplanet

Earth-like Planets

What's an Exoplanet?

A trillion planets in our galaxy alone and many of them in Earth’s size range.

What is an Exoplanet?

All of the planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun. Planets that orbit around other stars are called exoplanets. Click here to see how many we have found so far.

What are CubeSats?

Big ideas, small satellites

What are CubeSats?

At the forefront of helping redefine the way we do science in space.

What are CubeSats?

A CubeSat (U-class spacecraft) is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiples of 10×10×10 cm cubic units. Click to learn more.

What is the Deep Space Network?

Deep Space Network

What is the DSN?

The largest international array of giant radio antennas supporting interplanetary spacecraft missions.

What is the Deep Space Network?

The DSN consists of three facilities spaced equidistant from each other – approximately 120 degrees apart in longitude – around the world. These sites are at Goldstone, near Barstow, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. Click to learn more.

exotic travel poster art to download for free

Visions of the Future

Free Travel Posters

Download and print our futuristic space tourism posters.

JPL Travel Posters

Take a virtual trip to 14 alien worlds, and maybe even plaster your living room with planetary art, via the new, futuristic space tourism posters. The posters are available free for downloading and printing.

Download a free Voyager poster

Voyager 40th Anniversary

Voyager Posters

Download, print and share with friends and family.

Download Voyager posters for free.

Download three commemorative posters of the Voyager mission and celebrate the spacecraft's incredible 40 year journey.

Jovian Close Encounter

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Education and Public Events

Walk through the lifecycle of a mission from its start as a crazy idea, to concept, to development, construction, testing and launch.

Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Designing Tomorrow’s Space Missions Today

The Apollo program's "giant leap" took a decade of intense preparation to accomplish, and required a huge support system back on Earth throughout.

Apollo 50th Anniversary

Don’t let the name fool you. Our solar system’s small worlds pack big surprises.

Small Worlds, Big Science

Stories of how we repair and save missions when spacecraft are millions if not billions of miles away.

September 19 & 20

It Broke! Stories of How we Fixed It

All the material we can see is just a small fraction of the universe. The rest, a full 95 percent, is invisible and mysterious.

October 17 & 18

The Other 95% Of The Universe

Learn about how we use the International Space Station as a platform for Earth Science Research.

November 14 & 15

Science From the International Space Station

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