After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory braces for another round of layoffs as budget cuts loom. Approximately 550 employees of NASA ...

Key programmes led from JPL include the Europa Clipper, the asteroid-hunting Psyche probe, and the Deep Space Network that ...

But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits ...

Transmission to Psyche craft by Jet Propulsion Lab facility in California “exceeds project expectations”. The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory in California. NASA’s Deep Space Optical ...

NASA has achieved what it believes to be a breakthrough in optical communication. The stations on planet Earth have both received and sent messages beamed through NASA's Psyche spacecraft, according ...

NASA's Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 ...

The uncommon interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is captivating astronomers worldwide as it races through our solar system ...

The European Space Agency is using Mars and Jupiter missions to monitor the comet in real time. Observing from beyond Earth allows instruments to track the comet even when Earth-based telescopes lose ...