The wildfires raging around Los Angeles have made plenty of headlines lately, though they are slowly starting to get under ...

This month after dark, if you’re a sky watcher, you’ve perhaps seen Venus and Saturn in the southwest for the first couple of hours, with Jupiter shining ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles has been temporarily closed due to the Eaton Fire, which broke out near ...

A raging wildfire, the Eaton Fire, has disrupted operations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), forcing closure and evacuations, and threatening robotic space missions.

The wildfire closure isn't the only adversity that JPL has faced recently. The lab conducted two rounds of layoffs last year, ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that ...

The agency's Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in state-of-the-art facilities on Earth. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS) ...