An investigation by Futurism found that Space Daily, a decades-old space news site now owned by Brown Brothers Media, published articles under invented bylines like 'Dr. Katherine Chen' and 'Dr. James Whitfield,' who were falsely credited with careers at NASA's JPL and the European Space Agency. Neither agency has any record of these people existing, and after being contacted by reporters, Brown Brothers Media began deleting large numbers of articles and the fake author profiles themselves.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-21
A NASA-developed image-processing method called decorrelation stretch, originally created to pull extra detail from satellite and Mars rover photos, has been repurposed to reveal ancient artwork invisible to the naked eye. Using this technique, a Singaporean archaeologist uncovered roughly 200 faded paintings at Angkor Wat between 2010 and 2012, including scenes of horseback riders and musicians. The method reached archaeology through Jon Harman, a medical imaging professional and rock-art hobbyist who adapted NASA's published algorithm into the widely used Dstretch software.
spinoff.nasa.gov
· 2026-09-10
NASA has entered the testing phase for its High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, developed with Microchip Technology as the PIC64-HPSC chip. The system combines multi-core processing, fast networking, fault tolerance and AI capability into one radiation-hardened platform designed for missions from Earth orbit to deep space, promising over 100 times the performance-per-watt of current space computers.
windriver.com
· 2026-08-27
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