This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct.

The dimly glowing balls of gas formed like stars but in other ways resemble giant planets. NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) ...

Six satellites, each the size of a toaster oven, will operate as a single giant radio dish to study the Sun. NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch no earlier ...

The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama ...

The Airborne Snow Observatory is an Earth-based mission designed to collect data on the snow melt flowing out of major water basins in the western United States. The Airborne Snow Observatory is an ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, has studied the Red Planet's atmosphere and terrain from orbit since 2006 and also serves as a key data relay station for other Mars missions. The Mars ...

“This observation confirms that the instrument can produce a focused image,” said Vanessa Bailey, a Roman Coronagraph Instrument scientist at NASA JPL. “It’s a very limited test that kicks off a ...

The Studio led the effort to design these travel posters for destinations around our solar system, as well as real worlds around other stars. Nine artists, designers, and illustrators were involved in ...

The JPL Public Services Office offers a limited number of onsite, in-person tours, free of charge, for groups and individuals on an advance reservation basis. Visitor parking is also available free of ...

“We launched Kepler, to some extent, like Magellan or Columbus went to sea, not knowing quite what we were going to encounter. We knew we were going to make history. We just didn’t know what history ...