Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars this week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 5, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove twice as far on July 21 as on any other day of the mission so far: 109.7 yards (100.3 meters).Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 24, 2013
A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 19, 2013
The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer (about 0.62 mile).Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 17, 2013
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacspacecraft communications, enhance commercial...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 11, 2013
The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 9, 2013
NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 1, 2013
Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 28, 2013
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 19, 2013
A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 6, 2013
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 31, 2013
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 29, 2013
A new NASA and university analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 28, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 20, 2013
The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 30, 2013
A gauge on the Voyager home page, http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov, tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 25, 2013
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 19, 2013