The Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA this week will lay off about 550 employees — more than 10% of JPL's workforce — as part of a restructuring. The job cuts "are not related to the current ...

JPL has taken various measures to meet the current FY'25 budget allocation, but have reached the difficult decision to reduce the workforce through layoffs. This reduction affects approximately 325 ...

The surface of Mars is covered in spider-like patterns, but how they formed has long been a mystery. Researchers at NASA may ...

Voyager 2 interstellar mission got a lifeline on August 4, 2026, when NASA engineers completed the Big Bang -- a simultaneous power-component swap that kept all three remaining science instruments ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off 550 employees this week, the latest round of job cuts at the space science center. In a brief statement released Oct. 13, Dave Gallagher, ...

NASA plans to open up competition for control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has historically been operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This move is part of ...

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78. During a ...

The NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge announced on Tuesday that it will lay off about 5% of its staff. "Despite this being incredibly difficult for our community, this ...

In 1977, a team of scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory altered the course of space exploration when they launched the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft into the cosmos. Their ...