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
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
NASA has announced recipients of the 2013 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in exoplanet research.
Like bees buzzing around a hive, three repurposed military unmanned aircraft were sent by NASA into a Costa Rican volcano's plume last month to study its chemical environment.
NASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to fly as payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
A collaborative effort between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Delft University of Technology has demonstrated a novel optical sensor for the analysis of the composition and of the origin of geological formations.
The National Space Club will honor NASA's Curiosity/Mars Science Laboratory team with three awards, including the prestigious Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study.
A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters.
This week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean hydrothermal vent to test theories about the origins of life.
JPL will present this event on March 5-6, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Dr. Todd Ely, principal investigator for NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., spotlights the paradigm-busting innovations now in development to revolutionize spaceflight navigation.
Forecasters could be able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments.
In 2010-11, global sea level fell nearly a quarter inch. But, when it comes to long-term sea level, what comes down must eventually come back up.
NASA software that models the behavior of earthquake faults and NASA's first mobile application are co-winners of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award.
JPL researchers are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the lab, then zapping them with lasers.
Winners of the annual 2012 Postdoc Research Day gave seminars on their research and were presented with plaques to commemorate the event.
Teams from JPL and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo conduct a balloon technology demonstration field test for an upcoming CubeSat launch.
President Obama has named six NASA individuals, including one from JPL, as recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Researchers at JPL and Caltech have developed an instrument for exploring the cosmos and the quantum world.
For the first time in decades, NASA is reinventing the type of parachutes being used to land on Mars.
JPL’s annual Open House event gave visitors an up close look at the lab’s science and technology research efforts.
Follow announcements from the Office of the Chief Technologist at JPL
Come join the conversation on the new JPL Technology Facebook page.
Recounting of the GALEX project shows small projects can be as technically challenging as big ones.
JPL's annual Open House will take place June 9-10, 2012. Check out the exciting exhibits on the science and technology research.
The Discover JPL brochure, a student research report developed in partnership with JPL's University Research Affairs office, is the recent recipient of several Communicator Awards that recognize excellence in communications.
The Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane. A new study with NASA contributions finds the Arctic Ocean may be an important source.
JPL's MDL has released its annual report for 2011.
NASA is preparing to fly a Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC, demonstration that will revolutionize the way we conduct deep-space navigation.
The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in a new NASA scientific visualization created with the help of JPL satellite and model data.
NASA has announced the 2012 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in the area of exoplanet research.
How the Juno team focused on reducing risk for this mission to Jupiter.
A NASA-led study finds Arctic sea ice loss may be intensifying release of bromine into the atmosphere, depleting ground-level ozone and depositing toxic mercury in the Arctic.
NASA is helping lead a global effort to upgrade systems used to determine a terrestrial reference frame for Earth and improve the accuracy of Earth observations from space.
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.
Cubesats from JPL/Caltech have been selected by NASA to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.
KISS has announced that it will fund a new student-led mini program, giving a handful of students a chance to develop instruments for the Axel rover,
An orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate.
Only about 25 percent of the energy in every gallon of gasoline you buy actually helps your vehicle to run. What if you could recover some of the wasted energy? JPL and automakers and developing technology to do just that.
JPL will host the 24th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel.
Interested in spinoff technologies, commercialization, or licensing? Visit the new Technology Transfer site for more information.
Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) software operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient.
Researchers at JPL have developed a new chip that can carry out wet-chemistry experiments without human interaction.
NASA'S turning up the heat and weaving a path toward future exploration with development of new game-changing technologies.
The very first stars in our universe were not the behemoths scientists had once thought, according to new simulations performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
The 75th anniversary of the first rocket experiments at the site that became JPL will be celebrated with a free, public screening of a new documentary at Caltech on Oct. 25.
A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere.
New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.
NASA has selected two game-changing space technology projects for development, both with JPL involvement.
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
NASA has announced recipients of the 2013 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in exoplanet research.
Like bees buzzing around a hive, three repurposed military unmanned aircraft were sent by NASA into a Costa Rican volcano's plume last month to study its chemical environment.
NASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to fly as payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
A collaborative effort between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Delft University of Technology has demonstrated a novel optical sensor for the analysis of the composition and of the origin of geological formations.
The National Space Club will honor NASA's Curiosity/Mars Science Laboratory team with three awards, including the prestigious Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study.
A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters.
This week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean hydrothermal vent to test theories about the origins of life.
JPL will present this event on March 5-6, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Dr. Todd Ely, principal investigator for NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., spotlights the paradigm-busting innovations now in development to revolutionize spaceflight navigation.
Forecasters could be able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments.
In 2010-11, global sea level fell nearly a quarter inch. But, when it comes to long-term sea level, what comes down must eventually come back up.
NASA software that models the behavior of earthquake faults and NASA's first mobile application are co-winners of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award.
JPL researchers are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the lab, then zapping them with lasers.
Winners of the annual 2012 Postdoc Research Day gave seminars on their research and were presented with plaques to commemorate the event.
Teams from JPL and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo conduct a balloon technology demonstration field test for an upcoming CubeSat launch.
President Obama has named six NASA individuals, including one from JPL, as recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Researchers at JPL and Caltech have developed an instrument for exploring the cosmos and the quantum world.
For the first time in decades, NASA is reinventing the type of parachutes being used to land on Mars.
JPL’s annual Open House event gave visitors an up close look at the lab’s science and technology research efforts.
Follow announcements from the Office of the Chief Technologist at JPL
Come join the conversation on the new JPL Technology Facebook page.
Recounting of the GALEX project shows small projects can be as technically challenging as big ones.
JPL's annual Open House will take place June 9-10, 2012. Check out the exciting exhibits on the science and technology research.
The Discover JPL brochure, a student research report developed in partnership with JPL's University Research Affairs office, is the recent recipient of several Communicator Awards that recognize excellence in communications.
The Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane. A new study with NASA contributions finds the Arctic Ocean may be an important source.
JPL's MDL has released its annual report for 2011.
NASA is preparing to fly a Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC, demonstration that will revolutionize the way we conduct deep-space navigation.
The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in a new NASA scientific visualization created with the help of JPL satellite and model data.
NASA has announced the 2012 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in the area of exoplanet research.
How the Juno team focused on reducing risk for this mission to Jupiter.
A NASA-led study finds Arctic sea ice loss may be intensifying release of bromine into the atmosphere, depleting ground-level ozone and depositing toxic mercury in the Arctic.
NASA is helping lead a global effort to upgrade systems used to determine a terrestrial reference frame for Earth and improve the accuracy of Earth observations from space.
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.
Cubesats from JPL/Caltech have been selected by NASA to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.
KISS has announced that it will fund a new student-led mini program, giving a handful of students a chance to develop instruments for the Axel rover,
An orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate.
Only about 25 percent of the energy in every gallon of gasoline you buy actually helps your vehicle to run. What if you could recover some of the wasted energy? JPL and automakers and developing technology to do just that.
JPL will host the 24th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel.
Interested in spinoff technologies, commercialization, or licensing? Visit the new Technology Transfer site for more information.
Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) software operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient.
Researchers at JPL have developed a new chip that can carry out wet-chemistry experiments without human interaction.
NASA'S turning up the heat and weaving a path toward future exploration with development of new game-changing technologies.
The very first stars in our universe were not the behemoths scientists had once thought, according to new simulations performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
The 75th anniversary of the first rocket experiments at the site that became JPL will be celebrated with a free, public screening of a new documentary at Caltech on Oct. 25.
A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere.
New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.
NASA has selected two game-changing space technology projects for development, both with JPL involvement.