Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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As NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft were changing our understanding of the solar system, they also spurred a leap in spacecraft communications.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 2, 2017
Humanity's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 1, 2017
Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 27, 2017
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 25, 2017
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 21, 2017
In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a...NASA From ACM News | July 17, 2017
Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 13, 2017
The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 12, 2017
NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit.
NASA From ACM News | July 11, 2017
A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious "ice giant" planets Uranus and Neptune has been released—the first in a series...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 21, 2017
Five years ago, on June 13, 2012, Caltech's Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NASA's NuSTAR mission, watched with her team as their black-hole-spying spacecraft...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 13, 2017
NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 9, 2017
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 6, 2017
A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 2, 2017
Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water for a long...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Early science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 25, 2017
NASA is asking scientists to consider what would be the best instruments to include on a mission to land on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.
NASA From ACM News | May 17, 2017
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 11, 2017