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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission ...
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars

The scientists were especially intrigued by strong signals of carbonate minerals detected by Mars orbiters. On Earth, carbonates frequently form in shallow ocean and lake environments capable of ...
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New Next-Gen Dish Adds Muscle to NASA’s Deep Space Network

Deep Space Station 23 at NASA’s Goldstone facility in the California desert is the latest next-generation antenna to be added by the network’s enhancement project. NASA’s Deep Space Network facility ...
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NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters

The hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of planetary rotorcraft to use ground-penetrating radar to study the Martian subsurface. When the trio of NASA’s SkyFall helicopters takes to the ...
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NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission

Nicknamed the “Big Bang,” the effort involved simultaneously turning off certain powered devices and substituting them with lower-power alternatives while ensuring the spacecraft remains warm enough ...
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NASA Awards 2026 Innovative Technology Concepts

JPL is leading three of the 18 visionary concepts awarded funding by an innovation incubator program at NASA. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has created 18 new awards to support ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

Mission scientists have never seen so many of the many-sided geologic features in one place on the Red Planet. As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle ...
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NASA Testing Advanced Capabilities for Moon, Mars Rovers

A prototype rover built with a new design for tackling rugged terrain is helping teams refine capabilities that could one day be used on future lunar and Red Planet missions. On a bleak stretch of the ...
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NASA-European Sea Level Mission Homes in on El Niño

Waves of higher, warmer water move eastward across the Pacific Ocean a few months before an El Niño emerges. Several have shown up in 2026 satellite data. Sea level data from a satellite launched by ...
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JPL Prime Contract Update

Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum along with Caltech Vice President and JPL Director Dave Gallagher issued the following memo to the Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory community. The Jet ...
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NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1

The faster a Mars helicopter’s rotors spin, the heavier the payloads it can transport and the farther it can fly. The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian ...