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  • Looking for life beyond Earth
  • Developing technology to improve life on Earth

JPL Dares Mighty Things .

Exploring the universe and searching for new worlds

JPL Dares Mighty Things .

Creating robots to go where humans can’t

JPL Dares Mighty Things .

Exploring our solar system

JPL Dares Mighty Things .

Studying our home planet from air and space

JPL Dares Mighty Things .

Looking for life beyond Earth

JPL Dares Mighty Things .

Developing technology to improve life on Earth

Missions

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Time on Mars

Mars Perseverance

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DEEP SPACE NETWORK

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OSIRIS-REx

OSIRIS-REx is sending to Goldstone. GoldstoneOSIRIS-REx is receiving from Goldstone.

ASTEROID WATCH

Next close approach (safe)

March 21, 2026

503,000 Miles

Proximity 503,000
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Latest News

Exoplanets.

Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission’s First Images

Asteroids and Comets.

NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun

Earth.

US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water

Mars.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close

Mars.

NASA’s Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars

Stars and Galaxies.

Archival Data From NASA’s NEOWISE Tracks Star Turning Into Black Hole

Mars.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars

Earth.

NASA Analysis Shows La Niña Limited Sea Level Rise in 2025

Earth.

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission Peers Through Clouds to See Mississippi River Delta

Technology.

Networks Keeping NASA’s Artemis II Mission Connected

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Have you been awed by views of desolate Martian Valleys, swirling storms above Jupiter, and the icy blades ringing Saturn? Then you have journeyed with NASA JPL spacecraft and rovers.

Our missions have flown to every planet and the Sun in a quest to understand our place in the universe, and to search for the possibility of life beyond Earth.

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Explore the JPL campus virtually with interactive 360 panoramas of Mission Control, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, the visitor museum, and more.

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Exploring the Universe

Spacecraft developed at JPL have flown to every planet in the solar system and the Sun, and beyond.

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Earth

Current missions: 23

Past missions: 35

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Earth's Moon

Current missions: 1

Past missions: 21

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Current missions: 4

Past missions: 19

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Jupiter

Current missions: 2

Past missions: 1

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Europa

Current missions: 1

Past missions: 1

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Asteroids and Comets

Current missions: 1

Past missions: 9

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Saturn

Current missions: 0

Past missions: 1

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Interstellar Space

Current missions: 2

Past missions: 0

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Exoplanets

Current missions: 1

Past missions: 6

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Stars and Galaxies

Current missions: 6

Past missions: 8

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Robotics

NeBula-SPOT

Explores complex environments without human guidance

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Legged, Moving

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