Is there a moon around Kepler-1625 b? Can rocky planets around small stars hold onto their atmospheres? Are super-Earths habitable? Laura Kreidberg, exoplanet atmosphere specialist and director of the APEx Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, reviews the latest controversies and recent discoveries of exoplanet research. Exoplanet detectionContinue Reading
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA will provide live coverage Monday, Dec. 14, of a solar eclipse that will pass over South America, treating parts of Chile and Argentina to views of a total eclipse of the Sun. A Spanish-language program will air on NASA Television and the public channel on theContinue Reading
The addition of 26 new utility-scale wind and solar projects in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. bring Amazon’s total number of renewable energy projects to 127 Company’s total renewable energy investments to date will supply 6.5 GW of electricity production capacity — enoughContinue Reading
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, a joint U.S.-European satellite built to measure global sea surface height, has sent back its first measurements of sea level. The data provide information on sea surface height, wave height, and wind speed off the southern tip of Africa. “We’re excited for Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich to beginContinue Reading
Thirty-one companies have now joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early New signatories – Atos, Brooks, Canary Wharf Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, ERM, Groupe SEB France, Harbour Air, ITV, Microsoft, Neste, Rubicon, Unilever, andContinue Reading
The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 6,400 pounds of science investigations, a new airlock, and other cargo after launching at 11:17 a.m. EST Sunday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket fromContinue Reading
This month, as we near the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement—the international pledge to keep a global temperature rise this century well below 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels—the Museum, together with Mothers of Invention and Pathway to Paris, present a special discussion moderated by Mary Robinson, formerContinue Reading
NASA has selected two SmallSat missions – a study of Earth’s outer most atmosphere and a solar sail spaceflight test mission – to share a ride to space in 2025 with the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The missions – the Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic ExosphereContinue Reading
Transportation companies are taking immediate action to reduce their carbon emissions and meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. Creating more sustainable transportation methods is one of the most important, challenging, yet achievable ways to tackle climate change. From electric vehicles (EVs) to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), we’ve just scratched the surface of howContinue Reading
Where Ireland’s surface was once 80% covered by native forests, less than 2% now remains We live in a world where companies and individuals are becoming more socially responsible to help look after each other and the planet. At Salesforce, we pride ourselves on being a business committed to makingContinue Reading