including the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, two Voyager probes in interstellar space, and Mars rovers, orbiters, and probes. Previously, theDSN connected with the Cassini probe, which was intentionally plunged into Saturn as its fuel ran out, giving unprecedented information about that p...
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is scheduled toarrive at the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, early Friday morning (March 6). If all goes according to plan, Dawn will become the first probe ever to orbit a dwarf planet, as well as the ...
In 1975, NASA launched the Viking mission, the agency's first attempt to look for life on the Red Planet. Viking delivered two orbiters and two landers to Mars, eventually returning intriguing but equivocal evidence of possible biological activity. JPL built the orbiters and eventually assumed r...