The Media Relations Office at JPL is responsible for issuing press releases and hosting media events. As an institution, discussing new discoveries with the public is key to JPL's success as an institution. Below are selected press releases from JPL about new advances in many research fields.
News Board
08.17.09
When Constellation first began in 2004, JPL was seen as a center whose focus was solely on robotic exploration. But now with 150 people engaged in exploration technology programs, JPL has shown it can contribute to human spaceflight as well.
08.06.09
Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system.
08.03.09
JPL proposals to the 2009 NASA Innovation Fund have recently been funded.
08.03.09
When Neil Chamberlain and his colleagues from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Spacecraft Antennas Group discovered a weakness in their antenna design, they not only fixed the problem – they invented a new type of antenna. And they did it in record time.
07.22.09
Wolfgang Fink and his associate at Caltech have devised and implemented a versatile image-processing software system called the Artificial Retinal Implant Vision Simulator.
07.20.09
Mayor Villaraigosa, JPL Director Charles Elachi and Los Angeles DWP General Manager David Nahai made the announcement today at a JPL ceremony to sign the memorandum of understanding.
07.13.09
Josh Willis has been named a recipient of a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
07.08.09
Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record.
07.06.09
A team of JPL engineers is developing a system that would allow precision landings on the surface of Mars and other planetary bodies.
06.29.09
NASA's new airborne radars have capped off their Arctic expedition by measuring Iceland's topography and studying the flow of its glaciers and ice streams.
06.29.09
NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
06.22.09
A team from Caltech and the JPL has successfully demonstrated a system that will serve as a test-bed for exploring quantum mechanics in new limits.
06.18.09
A new NASA 3-D airborne radar, capable of seeing below the surface, will study earthquake faults in California.
06.18.09
A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed craters.
06.16.09
The most exotic frozen cocktails on Earth won’t be found in a chic restaurant or trendy bar. Scientists are mixing up icy concoctions in a laboratory not much bigger than a janitor’s closet.
06.11.09
NPP Senior Fellow Michael Russell is featured in Nature.
06.02.09
JPL researchers are selected as PI under NASA's Definition and Development Program.
05.28.09
JPL’s Microdevices Laboratory harnesses powerful and continuously improving microfabrication tools developed by the semiconductor industry to develop critical technologies that are otherwise unavailable for space instruments and missions.
05.28.09
A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch - a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known.
05.20.09
JPL scientists are pursuing an elegant technique for a polarizing imager that could help reduce uncertainties about the role aerosols and clouds play in climate change.
05.18.09
New cube-based simulations are helping to improve estimates of ocean circulation and climate.
05.12.09
Water is constantly being moved about our planet. The water, or hydrologic, cycle describes how water changes from liquid to solid to vapor and how it is stored in a variety of places.
05.05.09
An online cornucopia of tropical storm data and analysis tools will make it easier for researchers to validate and improve hurricane forecast models.
05.04.09
The annual Open House this past weekend put many science results and technologies on display for the public.
05.04.09
Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this "deepest-ever" view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
05.04.09
An investigation selected by NASA will help researchers dissect the internal structure of Mars by analyzing variations in the planet's rotation.
04.30.09
NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
04.30.09
John Casani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been honored with the National Air and Space Museum's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
04.27.09
JPL's annual Open House will feature many demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies along with activities and presentations related to scientific research.
04.06.09
The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. New evidence from satellite observations also shows that the ice cap is thinning as well.
03.31.09
The JPL-developed GeoSTAR microwave atmospheric sounder employs interferometry techniques pioneered in radio astronomy and could be a climate modeler’s dream come true.
03.25.09
The 11th annual Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices conference in San Diego, chaired by a JPL researcher, featured demonstrations of new and innovative artificial muscle technologies.
03.24.09
The Keck Institute for Space Studies brings together the expertise of JPL and the Caltech Campus to address high-return concepts for space mission science and technology.
03.17.09
Increased operating frequency will enable submillimeter-wave imaging for applications ranging from homeland security to cosmology.
03.11.09
Congress passed a resolution Wednesday recognizing scientific contributions of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, and commending the JPL and Cornell University teams.
03.10.09
NASA research into powering robotic underwater vehicles could some day help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale.
03.04.09
Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists have observed, for the first time, the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake that occurred on a 'buried' fault several miles below the surface-a fault whose fractures are not easily.
02.25.09
Winners of the annual 2008 Lew Allen Award for Excellence receive research funding and commemorative plaques.
02.19.09
JPL’s Advanced Technologies Group is developing an Ultrasonic-Sonic Driller-Corer for planetary exploration missions.
02.09.09
The National Academy of Engineering has elected Moustafa T. Chahine, a senior research scientist at JPL, as a member of its organization.
02.05.09
About half a year before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data.
02.04.09
Engineers from JPL and students at Caltech have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs and travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain.
02.03.09
The Pheonix lander will received the John "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award.
02.03.09
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently announced 2009 honors of JPLers.
01.29.09
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 21st Annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3 and 4, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel.
01.07.09
Some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
12.19.08
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to new study.
12.09.08
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
11.26.08
Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus
08.17.09
When Constellation first began in 2004, JPL was seen as a center whose focus was solely on robotic exploration. But now with 150 people engaged in exploration technology programs, JPL has shown it can contribute to human spaceflight as well.
08.06.09
Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system.
08.03.09
JPL proposals to the 2009 NASA Innovation Fund have recently been funded.
08.03.09
When Neil Chamberlain and his colleagues from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Spacecraft Antennas Group discovered a weakness in their antenna design, they not only fixed the problem – they invented a new type of antenna. And they did it in record time.
07.22.09
Wolfgang Fink and his associate at Caltech have devised and implemented a versatile image-processing software system called the Artificial Retinal Implant Vision Simulator.
07.20.09
Mayor Villaraigosa, JPL Director Charles Elachi and Los Angeles DWP General Manager David Nahai made the announcement today at a JPL ceremony to sign the memorandum of understanding.
07.13.09
Josh Willis has been named a recipient of a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
07.08.09
Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record.
07.06.09
A team of JPL engineers is developing a system that would allow precision landings on the surface of Mars and other planetary bodies.
06.29.09
NASA's new airborne radars have capped off their Arctic expedition by measuring Iceland's topography and studying the flow of its glaciers and ice streams.
06.29.09
NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
06.22.09
A team from Caltech and the JPL has successfully demonstrated a system that will serve as a test-bed for exploring quantum mechanics in new limits.
06.18.09
A new NASA 3-D airborne radar, capable of seeing below the surface, will study earthquake faults in California.
06.18.09
A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed craters.
06.16.09
The most exotic frozen cocktails on Earth won’t be found in a chic restaurant or trendy bar. Scientists are mixing up icy concoctions in a laboratory not much bigger than a janitor’s closet.
06.11.09
NPP Senior Fellow Michael Russell is featured in Nature.
06.02.09
JPL researchers are selected as PI under NASA's Definition and Development Program.
05.28.09
JPL’s Microdevices Laboratory harnesses powerful and continuously improving microfabrication tools developed by the semiconductor industry to develop critical technologies that are otherwise unavailable for space instruments and missions.
05.28.09
A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch - a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known.
05.20.09
JPL scientists are pursuing an elegant technique for a polarizing imager that could help reduce uncertainties about the role aerosols and clouds play in climate change.
05.18.09
New cube-based simulations are helping to improve estimates of ocean circulation and climate.
05.12.09
Water is constantly being moved about our planet. The water, or hydrologic, cycle describes how water changes from liquid to solid to vapor and how it is stored in a variety of places.
05.05.09
An online cornucopia of tropical storm data and analysis tools will make it easier for researchers to validate and improve hurricane forecast models.
05.04.09
The annual Open House this past weekend put many science results and technologies on display for the public.
05.04.09
Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this "deepest-ever" view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
05.04.09
An investigation selected by NASA will help researchers dissect the internal structure of Mars by analyzing variations in the planet's rotation.
04.30.09
NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
04.30.09
John Casani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been honored with the National Air and Space Museum's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
04.27.09
JPL's annual Open House will feature many demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies along with activities and presentations related to scientific research.
04.06.09
The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. New evidence from satellite observations also shows that the ice cap is thinning as well.
03.31.09
The JPL-developed GeoSTAR microwave atmospheric sounder employs interferometry techniques pioneered in radio astronomy and could be a climate modeler’s dream come true.
03.25.09
The 11th annual Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices conference in San Diego, chaired by a JPL researcher, featured demonstrations of new and innovative artificial muscle technologies.
03.24.09
The Keck Institute for Space Studies brings together the expertise of JPL and the Caltech Campus to address high-return concepts for space mission science and technology.
03.17.09
Increased operating frequency will enable submillimeter-wave imaging for applications ranging from homeland security to cosmology.
03.11.09
Congress passed a resolution Wednesday recognizing scientific contributions of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, and commending the JPL and Cornell University teams.
03.10.09
NASA research into powering robotic underwater vehicles could some day help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale.
03.04.09
Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists have observed, for the first time, the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake that occurred on a 'buried' fault several miles below the surface-a fault whose fractures are not easily.
02.25.09
Winners of the annual 2008 Lew Allen Award for Excellence receive research funding and commemorative plaques.
02.19.09
JPL’s Advanced Technologies Group is developing an Ultrasonic-Sonic Driller-Corer for planetary exploration missions.
02.09.09
The National Academy of Engineering has elected Moustafa T. Chahine, a senior research scientist at JPL, as a member of its organization.
02.05.09
About half a year before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data.
02.04.09
Engineers from JPL and students at Caltech have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs and travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain.
02.03.09
The Pheonix lander will received the John "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award.
02.03.09
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently announced 2009 honors of JPLers.
01.29.09
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 21st Annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3 and 4, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel.
01.07.09
Some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
12.19.08
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to new study.
12.09.08
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
11.26.08
Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus