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Professor sues Caltech over alleged whistleblowing retaliation
Photo by John Schreiber. A professor sued Caltech Thursday, alleging administrators made her working conditions intolerable because she reported alleged violations of federal laws to the FBI concerning...
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Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrates successful Orion test flight
Photo by John Schreiber. Cheers rang out Friday at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena when a space capsule on which JPL personnel have been working for a decade successfully landed in the...
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Liftoff for NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive mission
Photo via NASA’s SMAP Earth Mission Launches. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A satellite controlled from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena was launched by NASA Saturday, and it will give...
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JPL spacecraft first to orbit around dwarf planet
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft heading toward the dwarf planet Ceres. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed spacecraft made history when it became the...
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NASA’s new planet discovery is Earth’s ‘older, bigger cousin’
Courtesy of NASA. NASA’s Kepler orbiting telescope confirmed the existence of an “older, bigger cousin to Earth” 1,400 light years away — the first planet known to be in a habitable zone around a...
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Mars has water! Could there be life on Red Planet?
Photo via PIxabay New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides the “strongest evidence” to date that liquid water flows on Mars intermittently, space scientists, including at the Jet...
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Just what you wanted to hear: Increasing quake dangers in Southland
Seismogram being recorded by a seismograph at the Weston Observatory in Massachusetts, USA.. Photo by Z22 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.A NASA-led study of a 2014 magnitude-5.1 earthquake...
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NASA scrubs March Mars mission launch
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Photo by John Schreiber. The planned March launch of a Mars mission partially managed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory was scrubbed Tuesday by NASA following failed...
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SpaceX rocket lands hard on ‘Just Read The Directions’ barge
The damaged SpaceX booster stage lying on the barge. Image from Elon Musck’s Twitter feed A weather satellite was successfully launched into space atop a rocket booster built by Hawthorne-based SpaceX...
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Radios designed in Pasadena blast off for Mars
Photo via Pixabay A pair of radios designed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory were launched into space Monday aboard a European Space Agency craft bound for Mars, and they are expected to provide enhanced...
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Is there another Earth? Telescope discovers 1,300 planets
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft heading toward the dwarf planet Ceres. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A space telescope developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory has verified the...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft entering orbit around Jupiter
This illustration depicts NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter, with its solar arrays and main antenna pointed toward the distant sun and Earth. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages...
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Billion dollars not wasted: Juno’s orbiting Jupiter!
Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena cheer news that June successfully entered orbit around Jupiter. Courtesy JPL The JPL-managed Juno spacecraft is on its first full day...
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NASA scrubs March Mars mission launch
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Photo by John Schreiber. The planned March launch of a Mars mission partially managed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory was scrubbed Tuesday by NASA following failed...
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SpaceX rocket lands hard on ‘Just Read The Directions’ barge
The damaged SpaceX booster stage lying on the barge. Image from Elon Musck’s Twitter feed A weather satellite was successfully launched into space atop a rocket booster built by Hawthorne-based SpaceX...
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Radios designed in Pasadena blast off for Mars
Photo via Pixabay A pair of radios designed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory were launched into space Monday aboard a European Space Agency craft bound for Mars, and they are expected to provide enhanced...
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Is there another Earth? Telescope discovers 1,300 planets
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft heading toward the dwarf planet Ceres. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A space telescope developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory has verified the...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft entering orbit around Jupiter
This illustration depicts NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter, with its solar arrays and main antenna pointed toward the distant sun and Earth. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages...
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Billion dollars not wasted: Juno’s orbiting Jupiter!
Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena cheer news that June successfully entered orbit around Jupiter. Courtesy JPL The JPL-managed Juno spacecraft is on its first full day...
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NASA: JPL’s Cassini finds evidence ice-covered Saturn moon might sustain...
An illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flying through the water plumes of Enceladus, an icy moon that orbits Saturn. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech A Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed spacecraft...
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