NewsSpace

NASA Supports Research to Advance Earth Science

February 23, 2022
. A prize competition is designed to engage underrepresented academic institutions in helping NASA make advancements in machine learning, AI, and developing of autonomous systems. Through a new prize competition, NASA is engaging minority serving institutions (MSIs) to bring ideas for new information technologies that will help address climate change. The prize…
Read more
NewsSpace

Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets

February 23, 2022
. Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system. Loading Image Comparison… This illustration shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look…
NewsSpace

Samsung teases new Galaxy Book and more at February 27th event

February 17, 2022
Samsung is teasing the announcement of a new Galaxy Book laptop at an event on February 27th coinciding with this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC). In a small animation released alongside the invitation, a laptop can be seen unfolding itself, before being joined by a collection of other Samsung products, including a smart watch, smartphone, and a tablet. The event will be streamed on…
Read more
NewsSpace

Sea Level to Rise up to a Foot by 2050, Interagency Report Finds

February 16, 2022
NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other U.S. government agencies project that the rise in ocean height in the next 30 years could equal the total rise seen over the past 100 years. Coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years because of sea level rise, according to a new report by an interagency sea level rise task force that includes NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Read more
NewsSpace

A rocket is still set to slam into the Moon next month — but it may not be from SpaceX after all

February 13, 2022
Last month, an astronomer and space tracking expert made a bit of a splash when he predicted that a piece of an old SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left in space for the last seven years was going to collide with the Moon this March. But now he’s changing that prediction in a big way. While the rocket part he’s been tracking is still on a collision course with the Moon, he now believes that the vehicle…
Read more