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Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...
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NASA Study Refines Projections for Thwaites Glacier

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier pictured in 2014. A new study using a computer model developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration

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 ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct.
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Surveyor 3

After Surveyor 1's initial studies of the lunar surface in 1966, Surveyor 3 made further inroads into preparations for human missions to the moon. After Surveyor 1's initial studies of the lunar ...
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NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs

The dimly glowing balls of gas formed like stars but in other ways resemble giant planets. NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) ...
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Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission

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 ...
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Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx)

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 ...
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Free Onsite and Virtual Tours

The JPL Public Services Office offers a limited number of onsite, in-person tours, free of charge, for groups and individuals on an advance reservation basis. Visitor parking is also available free of ...
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The Studio at JPL

The Studio led the effort to design these travel posters for destinations around our solar system, as well as real worlds around other stars. Nine artists, designers, and illustrators were involved in ...
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24 STEM Lessons You Can Quickly Deploy in the Classroom

Calling all teachers pressed for time, substitutes looking for classroom activities that don't require a lot of prep, and others hoping to keep students learning in especially chaotic times: We've got ...
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NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024

Last year’s increase was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers. Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ...