A first-in-the-nation heating and cooling network in Massachusetts is set to double in size. By Phil McKenna The U.S. Department of Energy has approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network to double in size.Continue Reading
A new computer modeling tool developed by an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) research team will help infrastructure planners working in the electricity and other energy-intensive sectors better predict and prepare for future needs and conditions as they develop plans for power generation capacity, transmission lines, and other necessary infrastructure. TheContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community Save the Date! Cosmic Origins… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources Save the Date! Cosmic Origins at AAS 247 3 December 2025 The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (jointContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community ROSES-25 Amendment 26 D.2… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources ROSES-25 Amendment 26: D.2 Astrophysics Data Analysis Final Text and Due Dates Released 3 December 2025 To enhance the scientific returnContinue Reading
Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Meeting Rescheduled 3 December 2025 November 2025 Rescheduled to December 11, 2025 Time: 9:00am –Continue Reading
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Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals honor the legacy of the International Space Station and 25 years of continuous human presence in space. The International SpaceContinue Reading
As shown in this annotated composite image, NASA’s Psyche mission acquired these four observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, 2025, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Psyche observed interstellar cometContinue Reading
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three Martian dust devils can be seen near the rim of Jezero Crater in this short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Sept. 6,Continue Reading
OVERFLOW 2.5 Release Notes 2.5.0 – 9 June 2025 OVERFLOW 2.5 introduces the ability to run OVERFLOW on GPU systems. CPU Path Only refactoring has occurred in the CPU path of the code. Users should see equivalent behavior as 2.4d. There might be a slight difference (round-off) in some ofContinue Reading
OVERFLOW 2.4 Release Notes 2.4d 28 April 2025 Improvements: Reworked namelist parsing so that repeating each namelist is no longer needed. See change 130. Modified FOMOCO routines to reduce MPI overhead. NFOMO will no longer be reset by dynamic cases to output every step. See change 133. CFL ramping reworkedContinue Reading
3 min read Hazardous Material Summary Tables (HMSTs) A space toxicologist at NASA JSC. NASA Hazardous Materials Summary Tables (HMSTs) are a compilation of the chemical, biological, and flammability hazards of materials on a given flight or mission. HMSTs are required by Safety for all Programs, including but not limitedContinue Reading
4 min read Toxicology Analysis of Spacecraft Air SpaceX Crew-1 Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Shannon Walker work with a Grab Sample Container (GSC) in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft while en route to the ISS. NASA Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry (TEC) monitors airborne contaminants in both spacecraftContinue Reading