A giant telescope, galaxy maps, and laser beacons on Mars are only a few of the ideas that teams selected by NASA will study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics missions. NASA’s Jet ...

Firefly Aerospace, a US-based space and defence technology company, announced a US$13 million subcontract from NASA’s Jet ...

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78. During a ...

Firefly to leverage proven composite manufacturing expertise from its lunar landers and rockets to enable next generation of Mars exploration ...

Barely nine months after the last cut, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will again reduce its workforce. On Wednesday, the lab will lay 325 employees off, representing about 5 percent of the workforce ...

NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is testing a new class of experimental rover technology that could reshape how future missions move across the Moon and Mars, according to a recent ...

Peter Theisinger raised the IQ of any room he entered. The man considered a giant at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked on missions to six planets and landed three NASA rovers on Mars, has ...

JPL will lay off about 325 employees, in the third staff reduction this year. The layoffs follow federal budget cuts to Mars Sample Return, a mission to bring back rocks from the Red Planet NASA’s Jet ...

First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are ...

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