The Latest Breaking News from JPL

Shortly after 4 p.m. ET, the mountain-size asteroid 2011 UL21 will come within 5 million miles of Earth, making it one of the largest space rocks to come that close to our planet for 125 years. Here's how to watch the close encounter live, or see it with a telescope.

Ed Stone, who for 50 years served as the project scientist for NASA's iconic Voyager mission, died June 9 at the age of 88.

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Two of the four science instruments aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft are now returning usable data after months of transmitting only gibberish, NASA scientists have announced.

Voyager 1's mission has been tumultuous lately, but scientists on the probe's flight team have turned optimistic about the situation.

These samples are uniquely important for return to Earth for further study.

New maps of Earth's rivers are documenting our planet before climate change worsens.

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter's flying days may be over, but its influence will be felt far into the future.

From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien life.

NASA's DSOC experiment passed yet another milestone, interfacing with the Psyche spacecraft and beaming data back to Earth from 140 million miles away.

The saga of Voyager 1's communication blackout began in December, when NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reported that the spacecraft was transmitting unintelligible data back to Earth.