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JPL to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees this week, director Laurie Leshin said in a memo to...
Scientists long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter. Now it's happening
In 2015, Bill Nye was on Marine One with President Obama.The television personality and science advocate was officially there for an Earth...
Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts
Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of...
Algae here, alien life out there — Cal State L.A.-JPL partnership connects engineers to astrobiology
When Erika Flores applied for an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2014, she wasn’t quite sure if her undergraduate work...
Pete Theisinger, who led Mars rover missions for JPL, dies at 78
Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died...
NASA JPL team hopes to give greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite 'unprecedented' vision
It was almost 10 years ago when Andrew Thorpe received a text from the crew flying overhead in a small aircraft: They...