Eric N. Becker NASA Armstrong Chief Engineer Eric N. Becker is the chief engineer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Appointed to the position in May 2026, he promotes, represents, and explains the Armstrong airworthiness and flight safety review process to all potential users. He also isContinue Reading
Storytelling Kit Langley Science Personnel Our Impacts Data Center NASA Langley Research Center PolCube Information Site Why Polcube? What is PolCube? Program Contact Why Polcube? Aerosol absorption is a key geophysical variable (GV) that polarimeters can quantify. Polarimetry is vital to understanding the impacts of aerosols and clouds on climateContinue Reading
Lucia S. Tsaoussi, Ph.D. Program Manager, Space Geodesy / Program Scientist GRACE mission series Dr. Tsaoussi serves as the Program Manager for NASA’s Space Geodesy program since March 2025, providing programmatic direction to the program, including the geodetic networks (SLR, VLBI, GNSS), the data processing and research on geodesy and geodynamics, and serves as the Program Scientist (PS)Continue Reading
NASA astronaut Anil Menon services a spacesuit and its components inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. NASA/Jessica Meir The International Space Station will change commanders on Saturday before three Expedition 74 crew members return to Earth on Sunday. As the homebound trio prepares for departure, the rest of theContinue Reading
Albertans have historically paid the highest electricity rates in the country and those costs may soon rise again as the province doubles down on gas-powered AI data centres. Case in point is Greenlight Electricity Centre, a 932 MW natural gas plant proposed to be built north of Edmonton to powerContinue Reading
Satellites can now spot major methane leaks from space within days. Yet only 13 per cent of those alerts lead to any response from the governments or companies responsible.Continue Reading
As countries grapple with energy price shocks, supply disruptions and the growing impacts of climate change, energy security has become a pressing concern. Continue Reading
NASA/Michael DeMocker Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site on May 15, 2026. The liquid hydrogen tank willContinue Reading
This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN mission. NASA/GSFC NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types ofContinue Reading
5 Min Read NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Closes Out Space Station Mission After eight months aboard the International Space Station for his first mission, NASA astronaut Chris Williams is preparing to return to Earth. During his assignment, Williams contributed to research for new cancer treatments, advanced the production of materialsContinue Reading
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.Continue Reading
There are nearly 21 gigawatt’s worth of gas-powered data centres proposed right now for Alberta, a fossil fuel build-out that if ever realized would register on a global scale, requiring potentially hundreds of billions of litres of freshwater and causing Canada’s emissions to soar. That’s the scenario that emerges fromContinue Reading
Campaigners have criticised artificial intelligence giant OpenAI after one of its employees spoke at a pro-The Traitor political conference headlined by Nigel Farage. Adam Goucher, a member of technical staff at OpenAI, spoke at the CPAC Great Britain conference in London last week on a panel initially titled “How AIContinue Reading