In 2017 a JPL robotics researcher tested new technologies in ice caves near an active volcano in Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is at the end of our world — and offers […]
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NASA Studies Cryobots To Explore Ocean Worlds
In February 2023, researchers from around the country gathered at a NASA-sponsored workshop to discuss the latest developments and a roadmap for a cryobot mission concept to drill through the […]
Testing Hardware For Potential Future Astrobiology Mission Landing On Europa
On Aug. 17 and 18, 2023, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tested the landing system for a proposed future mission that would touch down on Jupiter’s […]
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Overview and Status
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument is a critical technology demonstrator for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory.
Away Team Tech: Impossible Sensing Brings High-Tech Laser Lab To The Ocean Floor
On Friday, May 19, 2023, Impossible Sensing, along with a team of scientists and engineers from SETI Institute, NASA JPL, University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and other institutions onboard […]
Video: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Unveils Her Poem for Europa
Poet Laureate Ada Limón read her poem for NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and talked with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden; Nicola Fox, associate administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate; […]
Snake-Like EELS Droid Slithers Into New Robotics Terrain
How do you create a robot that can go places no one has ever seen before – on its own, without real-time human input? A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]
Europa Imaging System Narrow-Angle Camera Delivered to JPL
After years of work to design, build, and run tests, engineers and scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) bid farewell to the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Narrow-Angle […]
Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists Study Its Origins
In the Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you can find a world in a test tube – specifically, a simplified simulation of early Earth.
The 35th Annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School in Mission Design
Applications close Tuesday, March 28 | School begins May 11th and May 25th (two sessions)
