Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana studies planets beyond our solar system in the search for alien life. But he now faces ...

The leader of NASA's first mission around the moon in half a century is the last to announce what's next for him after ...

For the first time in nearly 70 years, NASA is competing the contract to run JPL. What universities do for the space program ...

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet ...

Reid Wiseman, now a retired emeritus astronaut, will become deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA’s premier ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA this week will lay off about 550 employees — more than 10% of JPL's workforce — as part of a restructuring. The job cuts "are not related to the current ...

It's older than almost all surviving Earth rocks, researchers say.

NASA’s JPL Perseverance rover has detected ultrafine Martian dust particles that could penetrate deep into human lungs. The ...

NASA plans to open up competition for control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has historically been operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This move is part of ...

JPL’s story began with a Halloween rocket test in Pasadena in 1936. From those early experiments grew a laboratory that ...

The nearly two-pound chunk of rock was once part of a piece of the Martian crust that formed approximately 4.1 billion years ...