This 360-degree panorama from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows Neretva Vallis, the dusty, long-dried river channel that ...

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier pictured in 2014. A new study using a computer model developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...

Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in a dry riverbed along which JPL would rise. Their work helped make possible missions such as ...

Throughout the primary mission, about once per week, AutoNav was invoked by the operating sequence to allow it to acquire optical navigation images. It turned the spacecraft and the integrated camera ...

Mariner 3 was designed to fly by Mars and conduct other interplanetary experiments along the way. Mariner 3 was designed to fly by Mars and conduct other interplanetary experiments along the way.

For decades, many have sought to answer this question. Uncovering the truth not only broadens our understanding of the universe but also has the potential to yield vital information about the ...

New views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the unique six-sided jet stream around Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon.' ...

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) is a concept for a mission to directly image planetary systems around Sun-like stars. HabEx will be sensitive to all types of planets; however its main goal ...

Asteroid Redirect Mission Ends Development The Asteroid Redirect Mission was intended to develop a robotic spacecraft to visit a large near-Earth asteroid and collect a multi-ton boulder from its ...