Let’s check out the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission status webpage for Voyager 1 and 2. It’ll be fun. These two tiny ...

Source: NASA/JPL The most prominent physical feature of both the ground stations of the Deep Space Network (DSN), which we’ve covered in-depth already, and the Voyager spacecraft themselves are ...

Just over 50 years ago, paleontologist Donald Johnson unearthed the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. Now, another group of scientists have found ...

Stone was the Voyager Project Scientist and was responsible for coordinating 11 teams of scientists. The project's first science steering group meeting was held at JPL in December 1972 ...

NASA hadn’t expected Voyager 1 to continue working much after its Saturn encounter. But it continued sending data back to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. This gave ...

In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to ...

Extreme wildfire is a driverless car. And it veered close to a major NASA center.

NASA’s DSN currently maintains contact with the Voyager probes, the Mars rovers, and the Juno probe around Jupiter. The Spaceflight Operations Center at JPL has been “operational and staffed ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 reveals a unique magnetic anomaly caused by a rare solar wind event. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech found that ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar space—got in touch on April 20 with usable data on its health and status. That’s a triumph after a glitch in November caused ...

Scientists have discovered that deep trenches on Uranus’ moon Ariel might be pathways for material from its interior to reach ...

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, two big missions got snagged on workforce issues Scientists operate a copy of a Mars rover within the Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...