William Borucki, science principal investigator for NASA’s Kepler mission at the agency’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California, is the recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences. William Borucki, scien... More »
Kepler’s follow-up team includes astronomers who work with the Keck Telescopes in Hawaii (top), the Spitzer Space Telescope (middle), and other instruments using the doppler method of finding exoplanets (bottom). Kepler’s follow-up observers confirm new disc... More »
JPL’s Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun’s “habitable zone,†the region in the planetary system where liquid water m... More »
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler mission finds evidence for at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Look up at the night sky and you’ll see stars, sure. But the sky is also filled with planets — billions and billions... More »
Pasadena-based Ares J. Rosakis will receive the 2013’s P. S. Theocaris Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). Rosakis is Caltech’s Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and professor of mechanical engineering, and chair of the Di... More »
This composite-color view from NASA’s Dawn mission shows Cornelia Crater, streaked with dark materials, on the giant asteroid Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA A new study of images from JPL’s Dawn mission examines remarkable, dark-as-co... More »
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the single largest African-American women’s organization in the country, will kick off its centennial year by sponsoring a float in the 2013 Tournament of Roses® parade, hosting a star-studded Hollywood Gala and launching i... More »
An image of the Curiosity Explorer badge that can be earned by Foursquare users who check into a NASA visitor center or a venue categorized as a science museum or planetarium. Image Credit: Foursquare/NASA › Follow the Mars Curiosity rover on Foursquare WASHIN... More »
President Obama named Frances H. Arnold, a leader in the field of protein engineering and a member of the faculty at Caltech, Â one of 11 inventors who are the recipients of the 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Arnold, who is the Dick and Barb... More »
JPL’s Education Office has released a six-part video series that walks students, teachers and parents through the ins and outs of crafting a science fair project. › Watch video series Just in time for science fair season, the Education Office at NASA’s Jet Pro... More »
NASA/JPL’s popular mobile app continues to amass many exciting images including the Mars Curiosity Rover, dying stars, moons of Saturn and giant asteroids. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Space Images, the mobile image application from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab... More »
This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn’s rings and southern hemisphere. The composite image was made from 65 individual observations by Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer in t... More »
