The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2015

As NASA plans ambitious new robotic missions to Mars, the spacecraft needed to land safely on the red planet's surface necessarily becomes increasingly massive, hauling larger payloads to accommodate extended stays on the Martian surface.

As humans drive Earth's climate into a new regime, it is critical to keep our fingers on the pulse of the planet. Sea level rise is both a stark reminder of our impact on the climate and its impact on us.

JPL regularly sends research teams to the most important planet in the Solar System - our Earth. Join Remote Sensing Calibration Specialist Mark Helmlinger (a.k.a. Hellwinger) as he shares pictures and stories about the research efforts he has been a part of.

JPL has been engaged in several programs over the last couple of years that have developed new robots and software that can help out in terrestrial disaster scenarios or hazardous environments.

What will the first evidence of life outside our own solar system look like?

The effectiveness of cryospheric science in addressing its main purpose (predicting and assessing response to climate change) is powerfully, but intangibly enhanced by the mysterious nature and the remote locations of ice and snow phenomena.

July 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to successfully fly by the planet Mars.

California's history is written in great droughts. As of December 2014, the ongoing California drought has turned more serious.

With thousands of planets now known around other stars, it's natural to wonder why so many planetary systems are quite different from our own.

Prior to Dawn's arrival, the dwarf planet Ceres was the largest unexplored world in the inner solar system.

Launched in August of 2011, the Juno spacecraft will reach Jupiter in July of 2016.