Artist’s concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a... More »
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE (Artist impression ) Image credit: ESA/AOES NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moon... More »
Ninth-grade, high-school students from Peoria, AZ analyze images of Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU A NASA project that allows students to use a camera on a spacecraft orbiting Mars for research has received a new education prize from the journal Scie... More »
First Curiosity Drilling Sample in the Scoop This image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS JPL’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it ha... More »
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star like our sun, approximately 210 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Kepler mission scientists... More »
This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. ES... More »
Jean-Lou Chameau, the eighth president of the California Institute of Technology, announced his intent to step down from the position in a letter to the Caltech community today. Chameau plans to leave later this year. “President Chameau has served Caltech with... More »
This artist’s impression by the European Space Agency shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft exploring the magnetic environment of Saturn. Image credit: ESA During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA’s Ca... More »
This collage of 72 individual radar-generated images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was created using data from NASA’s 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 201... More »
PASADENA — NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia’s Urals region this morning. Scientists have determined the Russia meteor is not related to aster... More »
A meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC impacted Chelyabinsk. Preliminary information is that this object was unrelated to asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a safe pass by Earth today. Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-CaltechPreliminary in... More »
According to NASA scientists, the trajectory of the Russian meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object. Information is still being collected about the Russian meteor and analysis is... More »
