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New Panorama Reveals More Than 1,000 Black Holes

Astronomers have created a black hole panorama using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes.

Pacific Shows Signs of Morphing to Cool La Nina  →

New data of sea-level heights from early February 2007, by the Jason altimetric satellite show that the tropical Pacific Ocean has transitioned from a warm (El Niño) to a cool (La Niña) condition during the prior two months.

Hubble Images Jupiter for New Horizons Flyby  →

Using a camera developed and built by JPL, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this Jupiter image in support of the New Horizons mission.

Celebrating Black History Month: A Navigator

David Jefferson has helped navigate JPL spacecraft to their exotic destinations -- Mars and two comets.

NASA-Backed Team Developing Sensor to Check for Life on Mars

NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool that could not only check for the faintest traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars, but could also determine whether they have been produced by anything alive.

Cassini Flyby Crisscrosses Familiar Terrain  →

During Cassini's flyby of Titan on Feb. 22, the radar mapper imaged Titan's surface and crisscrossed over six previously mapped areas. Stay tuned for those views.

Celebrating Black History Month: An Information Technologist

As JPL's first Associate Chief Information Officer, Dr. Magalene Powell-Meeks is responsible for making sure all of the lab's information technology needs are met.

Celebrating Black History Month: A Mission Manager

Ed Massey has dedicated 20 years of his life working on NASA/JPL missions and projects, including the Voyager and Ulysses missions.

Pack Your Backpack  →

Calling all explorers! Tour JPL with our new Virtual Field Trip site. Stops include Mission Control and the Rover Lab.

Cassini's Infrared Eyes Aimed at Titan

Cassini successfully completed a flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Monday, Jan. 29, aiming its infrared eyes on the moon's murky atmosphere, peering through its thick, smoggy veil, and mapping surface features.

Titan Occultation

Science Foundation Honors Two Telescope Scientists  →

A National Science Foundation medal goes to two scientists whose work on NASA's Two Micron All-Sky Survey enabled "a thrilling variety of explorations in astronomy and astrophysics."

A Tale of Two Sites: Impacts of Relocating L.A.'s Weather Station

To modern-day climatologists, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" could serve as a metaphor for weather records in Los Angeles since the the city's official downtown weather station was relocated.

Astronomers Map 'Clumpy' Dark Matter in 3-D  →

An international team of astronomers, including JPLer Jason Rhodes, used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to create the first three-dimensional map of dark matter in the universe.

Radar Love: Asteroid Detection and Science

They are the celestial equivalent of sonograms. But their hazy outlines and ghostly features do not document the in-vivo development of a future taxpayer.

Stardust Findings Suggest Comets More Complex Than Thought

Comets may be more than just simple conglomerations of ice, dust and gases. Some may be important windows on the early solar system.

NASA Study Finds New Kind of Organics in Stardust Mission

A team of scientists found a new class of organics in comet dust captured from Comet Wild 2 in 2004 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.

NASA Tropical Ozone Studies Yield Surprises

Two new NASA-funded studies of ozone in the tropics using NASA satellite data not previously available are giving scientists a fuller understanding of the processes driving ozone chemistry and its impacts on pollution and climate change.

Comets as Toolkits for Jump-Starting Life

Just as kits of little plastic bricks can be used to make everything from models of the space shuttle to the statue of liberty, comets are looking more and more like one of nature's toolkits for creating life.

Moulin 'Blanc': NASA Expedition Probes Deep Within a Greenland Glacier

JPL Research scientist Dr. Alberto Behar took in the "show" at the moulin this summer. But unlike Paris' famous Moulin Rouge, the star of this moulin was Mother Nature herself, presenting a dazzling display of moving water and ice.