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Free Tickets to ‘Explore JPL’ Available Online Soon

March 30, 2023
For decades, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has invited the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to go “behind the scenes” and see the latest technologies and space missions studying Earth, our solar system, and beyond. This year’s “Explore JPL” – the first since the COVID-19 pandemic began – will take place April 29 to 30, from…
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NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet

March 22, 2023
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, bringing hotter material up and pushing colder material…
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L.A. Youth Robotics Competition Leaves Student Teams Energized

March 21, 2023
After two days of fast-paced competition complete with team uniforms, cheerleaders, pounding music, and blaring horns, multiple teams of high schoolers came out victorious at the 23rd annual FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional over the weekend. Next, they’ll be headed to an international championship tournament where their 125-pound inventions will compete for robotics…
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Ranking Atmospheric Rivers: New Study Finds World of Potential

March 17, 2023
Atmospheric rivers – vast airborne corridors of water vapor flowing from Earth’s tropics toward higher latitudes – can steer much-needed rain to parched lands. But in extreme form, they can also cause destruction and loss of life, as recently occurred in parts of…
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Engineers Keep an Eye on Fuel Supply of NASA’s Oldest Mars Orbiter

March 16, 2023
Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the Red Planet almost 22 years ago, the spacecraft has looped around Mars more than 94,000 times. That’s about the equivalent of 1.37 billion miles (2.21 billion kilometers), a distance that has required extremely careful management of the spacecraft’s fuel supply. This feat is all the more impressive given that Odyssey has no fuel gauge…
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NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus

March 16, 2023
Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity has been observed on the surface of Venus for the first time. Scientists made the discovery after poring over archival radar images of Venus taken more than 30 years ago, in the 1990s, by NASA’s Magellan mission. The…
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How the James Webb Space Telescope changed astronomy in its first year

March 14, 2023
As Christmas approached last year, astronomers and space fans around the globe gathered to watch the much-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. Though a wondrous piece of engineering, the telescope was not without its controversies — from being way over budget and behind schedule to being named after a former NASA administrator who has been accused of homophobia. Despite the…
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