Environment & Sustainability

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NASA Launches Its Most Powerful, Efficient Supercomputer

3 min read NASA Launches Its Most Powerful, Efficient Supercomputer Athena, NASA’s newest supercomputer, is housed at the agency’s Modular Supercomputing Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is announcing the availability of its…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left) in the Serpens Nebula in…

Submit Your #NASAMoonCrew to NASA

Submit Your #NASAMoonCrew to NASA Ahead of the Artemis II mission, NASA wants to know: who is in YOUR #NASAMoonCrew? Share your photos, art, videos—anything depicting your crew—with the world! Please submit your creation in this form to allow NASA…

NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware

3 min read NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer…

Rio de Janeiro state bans shark meat for school meals

RIO DE JANEIRO — The government of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has banned shark meat for meals in most of the schools it manages, citing health and environmental concerns. The move puts the state in line to…