Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU However, the existence of these pure quartz crystals—crystals that can only form thanks to complex hot-water systems here on Earth—it seems likely that water ...

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“It’s really the first of its kind,” said Olivier Doré, a cosmologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the mission’s project scientist. By contrast, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

“I knew this was likely to go away as we collected more data,” said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. “I was sleeping pretty well.

With further observations, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies determined “more precise models” of the asteroid’s trajectory show “there is ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch ...

The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The launch was originally scheduled for Feb. 27 but had been pushed back for additional prelaunch checkouts and availability of launch ...

Four astronauts will have to wait a bit longer for their journey to the International Space Station. Mission controllers called off a planned launch Wednesday because of an issue with one of the ...