This artist’s rendition illustrates the formation of rocky bodies in the solar system – how they form and differentiate and evolve into terrestrial planets. Image credit: JPL/NASA-Caltech On Aug. 20, NASA announced the selection of InSight, a new Discovery-cla... More »
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity extended its robotic arm on Aug. 20, 2012, for the first time on Mars and used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view of the extended arm. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report NAS... More »
Wiggle in the Gravel This set of images shows the movement of the rear right wheel of NASA’s Curiosity as rover drivers turned the wheels in place at the landing site on Mars. Image credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech PASADENA, Calif. Â – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has b... More »
This image shows Curiosity’s Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) “war room” and its staff. On the night of Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (early morning Aug. 6 EDT), 34 engineers gathered in this room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to support the landin... More »
Curiosity’s First Track Marks on Mars This 360-degree panorama shows evidence of a successful first test drive for NASA’s Curiosity rover. On Aug. 22, 2012, the rover made its first move, going forward about 15 feet (4.5 meters), rotating 120 degrees and then ... More »
This full-resolution image shows part of the deck of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken from one of the rover’s Navigation cameras looking toward the back left of the rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will hold a televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. PDT ... More »
Artist’s concept of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PADADENA, Calif. — NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey... More »
Behaving something like ravenous monsters, tumors need plentiful supplies of cellular building blocks such as amino acids and nucleotides in order to keep growing at a rapid pace and survive under harsh conditions. How such tumors meet these burgeoning demands... More »
On a hot Pasadena summer afternoon, a group of middle school students looked up with excitement, waiting for their teammates and mentors to drop their engineering projects over a railing four floors up. In the minutes that followed, some of the projects crashe... More »
MRI scans of a human brain show the regions significantly associated with decision-making in blue, and the regions significantly associated with behavioral control in red. On the left is an intact brain seen from the front — the colored regions are both in the... More »
Plasma loops created in the lab were recorded using high-speed cameras. [Credit: Eve Stenson / Caltech] In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television and radio feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecr... More »
NASA has signed a new $8.5 billion contract with Caltech, extending the Institute’s management of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for an additional five years. JPL is NASA’s only federally funded research and development center. It’s history is inextri... More »
