NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 13. The event, to be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will include remote participation from experts across the country.

The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

These new discoveries will help inform future ocean world exploration -- including NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission planned for launch in the 2020s -- and the broader search for life beyond Earth.

The news briefing participants will be:

Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington

Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters

Mary Voytek, astrobiology senior scientist at NASA Headquarters

Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California

Hunter Waite, Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) team lead at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio

Chris Glein, Cassini INMS team associate at SwRI

William Sparks, astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore

Members of the public can ask questions during the briefing using #AskNASA.

The event will also be streamed live at :

YouTube.com/nasajpl/live

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and to view the news briefing, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information on ocean worlds, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/ocean-worlds

For more information on Cassini, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/cassini

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

For more information on Hubble, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/hubble

News Media Contact

Preston DychesJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.818-354-7013preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.govFelicia Chou / Dwayne BrownNASA Headquarters, Washington202 358 0257 / 202-358-1077felicia.chou@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.brown@nasa.govRob GutroGoddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.301-286-4044robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov2017-102b