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
11.19.08
NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can smell dangerous chemicals in the air.
11.18.08
NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
11.18.08
The Earth-observing satellite has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet.
11.17.08
Call for Concept Ideas for the 2009-2010 Large Study Programs at the Keck Institute for Space Studies
11.13.08
NASAs Phoenix Mars Lander has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publications "Best of Whats New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.
11.10.08
Postdoctoral fellowship opportunities are now available through the Keck Institute for Space Science
10.31.08
NASA has selected 142 proposals for possible contract awards. JPL is providing technical oversight for 19 of these projects to develop technology for future missions.
10.28.08
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars, suggesting that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed.
10.23.08
The National Space Club presented NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission team with its Astronautics Engineer Award last night in Huntsville, Ala.
10.09.08
A NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above Earth.
10.07.08
Winners of the annual 2008 Post Doc Research Day gave lectures on their research and were presented with plaques to commemorate the event.
10.02.08
NASA has awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country, including two from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
10.01.08
Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
09.25.08
More than 300 high school and college interns worked at JPL this summer in areas such as robotic hardware systems and nano- and micro-systems. New web videos profile two of the students.
09.23.08
Data from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available.
09.18.08
Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
09.17.08
You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea.
09.09.08
In recent weeks, JPLers have been joined by six lieutenants and a captain from Los Angeles Air Force Base taking part in a a six-month employee exchange program.
09.05.08
Movement of the Cosmos supercomputer center was completed in six days.
09.03.08
NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.
09.03.08
Michele Judd has been named managing director of the Keck Institute.
07.22.08
NASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system.
07.10.08
Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.
07.09.08
Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA.
05.27.08
On May 29 and 30, astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect possible life on it.
05.13.08
Two technologies developed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been selected for the Space Foundations 2008 Space Technology Hall of Fame.
05.13.08
The one-day conference provides a forum for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory leadership to engage industry partners by providing insight into future business opportunities at JPL.
03.19.08
A team of astronomers, led by JPLs Mark Swain, has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star.
02.27.08
Scientists at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. collected the data using the Deep Space Networks Goldstone Solar System Radar located in Californias Mojave Desert. Internal investment at JPL is seeding future development of this capability
02.22.08
Talks and posters on all aspects of current and future exoplanet science will be on display Friday, Feb. 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in von Karman.
02.08.08
Lee-Lueng Fu, a senior research scientist at JPL and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, a former JPL scientist who is now an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering among the highest pr
01.16.08
The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and City of Hope, a leading cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif.
07.07.07
Spitzer science team member Giovanni Fazio has won a prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to space science.
11.19.08
NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can smell dangerous chemicals in the air.
11.18.08
NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
11.18.08
The Earth-observing satellite has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet.
11.17.08
Call for Concept Ideas for the 2009-2010 Large Study Programs at the Keck Institute for Space Studies
11.13.08
NASAs Phoenix Mars Lander has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publications "Best of Whats New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.
11.10.08
Postdoctoral fellowship opportunities are now available through the Keck Institute for Space Science
10.31.08
NASA has selected 142 proposals for possible contract awards. JPL is providing technical oversight for 19 of these projects to develop technology for future missions.
10.28.08
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars, suggesting that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed.
10.23.08
The National Space Club presented NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission team with its Astronautics Engineer Award last night in Huntsville, Ala.
10.09.08
A NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above Earth.
10.07.08
Winners of the annual 2008 Post Doc Research Day gave lectures on their research and were presented with plaques to commemorate the event.
10.02.08
NASA has awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country, including two from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
10.01.08
Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
09.25.08
More than 300 high school and college interns worked at JPL this summer in areas such as robotic hardware systems and nano- and micro-systems. New web videos profile two of the students.
09.23.08
Data from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available.
09.18.08
Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
09.17.08
You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea.
09.09.08
In recent weeks, JPLers have been joined by six lieutenants and a captain from Los Angeles Air Force Base taking part in a a six-month employee exchange program.
09.05.08
Movement of the Cosmos supercomputer center was completed in six days.
09.03.08
NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.
09.03.08
Michele Judd has been named managing director of the Keck Institute.
07.22.08
NASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system.
07.10.08
Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.
07.09.08
Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA.
05.27.08
On May 29 and 30, astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect possible life on it.
05.13.08
Two technologies developed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been selected for the Space Foundations 2008 Space Technology Hall of Fame.
05.13.08
The one-day conference provides a forum for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory leadership to engage industry partners by providing insight into future business opportunities at JPL.
03.19.08
A team of astronomers, led by JPLs Mark Swain, has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star.
02.27.08
Scientists at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. collected the data using the Deep Space Networks Goldstone Solar System Radar located in Californias Mojave Desert. Internal investment at JPL is seeding future development of this capability
02.22.08
Talks and posters on all aspects of current and future exoplanet science will be on display Friday, Feb. 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in von Karman.
02.08.08
Lee-Lueng Fu, a senior research scientist at JPL and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, a former JPL scientist who is now an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering among the highest pr
01.16.08
The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and City of Hope, a leading cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif.
07.07.07
Spitzer science team member Giovanni Fazio has won a prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to space science.