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The Mars Exploration Family Portrait shows every dedicated spacecraft mission to Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL / Roscosmos / JAXA / ESA / ISRO / Jason Davis / The Planetary Society

We all have a lot of questions about Mars. Recently, at a National Geographic Live event in Seattle, we collected quite a few. Luckily for us, Dr. Ray Arvidson, planetary geologist and professor at…

Have you ever wondered why it takes such a long period of time for NASA to build space exploration equipment? What is involved in manufacturing and building a rover for the Red Planet? During this lesson, students discover the journey that a Mars rover embarks upon after being designed by engineers and before being prepared for launch. Students investigate the fabrication techniques, tolerance concepts, assembly and field-testing associated with a Mars exploratory rover to prepare for the…

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

Characteristics of the seven TRAPPIST-1 worlds, compared to the rocky planets in our solar system.Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit the same tiny, dim star, and all of them may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The agency’s mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft.

In this lab activity, students explore how metal reactivity relates to space exploration and spacecraft design.

A giant version of NASA’s classic red, white, and blue logo now proudly adorns a building that has played a central role in space-exploration history.

NASA’s Opportunity rover, still going after 10 years on Mars, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record with 25 miles of driving.

Join us as we explore our solar system: The Sun, eight planets, five officially named dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and thousands of asteroids and comets.

Voyager Disk reference card. (Credit: Gizmodo) Voyager I is now officially flying into interstellar space. In the future, an alien spaceship may come across it. When they do, they will find two things: a golden disk and a record player. How to interpret the instructions on the cover.

Want to test drive a career? There’s no better place to get on track than an internship with JPL. Here, we have gathered a list of “JPL Summer Internships” to make your way easy. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a unique national research facility that carries out robotic space and Earth science missions. Today JPL continues… Read More »JPL Summer Internships for Students

The subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus seems possibly habitable in many ways. Now a new study has determined it's the right age to support life, too.

Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.

By Linda HerridgeNASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center

InSight tried to detect seismic waves created by the arrival of its sister mission, helping scientists uncover how Mars absorbs energy from impacts.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

A vintage JPL graphic celebrating the Explorer 1 satellite. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech