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WISE Launch is Successful
“WISE thundered overhead, lighting up the pre-dawn skies,” said William Irace, the mission’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “All systems are looking good, and we are on our way to...
Rare Jupiter Collision Captured by Hubble
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory’s checkou...
JPL: What’s Up for July 2009
Early astronomers like Galileo used telescopes to map the Milky Way galaxy. This month, you can see the Milky Way in the late evening....
Presidental Early Career Award Goes to NASA JPL Scientist
Josh Willis, an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has been honored by President Barack Obama with the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award is the highest ......
Meet Dr. Tara Estlin, Mars Rover Driver, NASA-JPL
Bestjobsever.net catches up with Dr. Tara Estlin from NASA-JPL to talk about her job as a Mars Rover Driver....
Hunting for Planets with Kepler
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for ......
Hubble’s Eye on the Universe
JPL’s camera aboard Hubble has taken some of the space telescope’s most memorable images. The camera will be removed and brought back to Earth during a Hubble servicing mission this month....
NASA’s Spitzer Begins Warm Mission
After more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has run out of the coolant that kept its infrared instruments chilled. The telescope will warm up slightly, yet two of its infrared detector ar...
JPL: Oceans of Climate Change
Latest video from JPL. What can a water balloon teach us about climate change on earth? Be sure to check this out......
JPL: What’s Up April 2009
