News Board
The Media Relations Office at JPL is responsible for issuing press releases and hosting media events. As an institution, discussing new discoveries with the public is key to JPL's success as an institution. Below are selected press releases from JPL about new advances in many research fields.
An online cornucopia of tropical storm data and analysis tools will make it easier for researchers to validate and improve hurricane forecast models.
An investigation selected by NASA will help researchers dissect the internal structure of Mars by analyzing variations in the planet's rotation.
Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this "deepest-ever" view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The annual Open House this past weekend put many science results and technologies on display for the public.
John Casani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been honored with the National Air and Space Museum's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
JPL's annual Open House will feature many demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies along with activities and presentations related to scientific research.
The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. New evidence from satellite observations also shows that the ice cap is thinning as well.
The JPL-developed GeoSTAR microwave atmospheric sounder employs interferometry techniques pioneered in radio astronomy and could be a climate modeler’s dream come true.
The 11th annual Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices conference in San Diego, chaired by a JPL researcher, featured demonstrations of new and innovative artificial muscle technologies.
The Keck Institute for Space Studies brings together the expertise of JPL and the Caltech Campus to address high-return concepts for space mission science and technology.
Increased operating frequency will enable submillimeter-wave imaging for applications ranging from homeland security to cosmology.
Congress passed a resolution Wednesday recognizing scientific contributions of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, and commending the JPL and Cornell University teams.
NASA research into powering robotic underwater vehicles could some day help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale.
Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists have observed, for the first time, the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake that occurred on a 'buried' fault several miles below the surface-a fault whose fractures are not easily.
Winners of the annual 2008 Lew Allen Award for Excellence receive research funding and commemorative plaques.
JPL’s Advanced Technologies Group is developing an Ultrasonic-Sonic Driller-Corer for planetary exploration missions.
The National Academy of Engineering has elected Moustafa T. Chahine, a senior research scientist at JPL, as a member of its organization.
About half a year before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data.
Engineers from JPL and students at Caltech have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs and travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain.
The Pheonix lander will received the John "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently announced 2009 honors of JPLers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 21st Annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3 and 4, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel.
Some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to new study.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus
NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can smell dangerous chemicals in the air.
The Earth-observing satellite has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet.
NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Call for Concept Ideas for the 2009-2010 Large Study Programs at the Keck Institute for Space Studies
NASAs Phoenix Mars Lander has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publications "Best of Whats New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.
Postdoctoral fellowship opportunities are now available through the Keck Institute for Space Science
NASA has selected 142 proposals for possible contract awards. JPL is providing technical oversight for 19 of these projects to develop technology for future missions.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars, suggesting that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed.
The National Space Club presented NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission team with its Astronautics Engineer Award last night in Huntsville, Ala.
A NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above Earth.
Winners of the annual 2008 Post Doc Research Day gave lectures on their research and were presented with plaques to commemorate the event.
NASA has awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country, including two from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
More than 300 high school and college interns worked at JPL this summer in areas such as robotic hardware systems and nano- and micro-systems. New web videos profile two of the students.
Data from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available.
Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea.
In recent weeks, JPLers have been joined by six lieutenants and a captain from Los Angeles Air Force Base taking part in a a six-month employee exchange program.
Movement of the Cosmos supercomputer center was completed in six days.
NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.
Michele Judd has been named managing director of the Keck Institute.
NASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system.
Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.
Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA.
Spitzer science team member Giovanni Fazio has won a prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to space science.
On May 29 and 30, astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect possible life on it.
The one-day conference provides a forum for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory leadership to engage industry partners by providing insight into future business opportunities at JPL.
Two technologies developed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been selected for the Space Foundations 2008 Space Technology Hall of Fame.
A team of astronomers, led by JPLs Mark Swain, has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star.
Scientists at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. collected the data using the Deep Space Networks Goldstone Solar System Radar located in Californias Mojave Desert. Internal investment at JPL is seeding future development of this capability
Talks and posters on all aspects of current and future exoplanet science will be on display Friday, Feb. 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in von Karman.
Lee-Lueng Fu, a senior research scientist at JPL and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, a former JPL scientist who is now an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering among the highest pr
The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and City of Hope, a leading cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif.Nanot
