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NASA Selects Futuristic Space Technology Concepts for Early Study

February 26, 2022

The selected concepts include two from JPL. The projects are still in the early stages of development and are not considered official NASA missions. An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars’ carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. On Venus, an inflatable bird-like drone swoops through the sky…

Astronomers Find Two Giant Black Holes Spiraling Toward a Collision

February 25, 2022

. Astronomers Find Two Giant Black Holes Spiraling Toward a Collision A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets closer to merging. …

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…

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 like, based on available data about the planets’ diameters, masses, and distances from the host star. Astronomers have…

NASA’s Perseverance Celebrates First Year on Mars by Learning to Run

February 19, 2022

The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one…

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…

Students With Perseverance Receive Messages From Mars, Courtesy of NASA

February 17, 2022

. Students With Perseverance Receive Messages From Mars, Courtesy of NASA The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with the rover team at JPL. A group of 20 young students who have shown the character trait that NASA’s Perseverance rover is…

Disney Plus goes full Space Jam 2 with a new Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie

February 16, 2022

Disney has released a trailer for the Disney Plus exclusive movie Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and it seems it’s following in the grand tradition of Space Jam 2 by being squarely targeted toward the age bracket that remembers the characters from late ’80s and early…

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…

Testing Rocks on Earth to Help NASA’s Perseverance Work on Mars

February 15, 2022

. Testing Rocks on Earth to Help NASA’s Perseverance Work on Mars Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first sampling attempt. When NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover tried to collect its first rock core sample last…