Press Room
NASA's out-of-this-world science, engineering, and technology demonstrations at SC15 in Austin provide the fuel for launching your news items, blog posts, interviews, and feature articles.
Press Releases and Media Alerts
- November 17, 2015
- SC15 Test of Time Award Presented to NAS Parallel Benchmarks Team
- November 17, 2015
- NASA Shares in HPCwire Award at SC15
- November 12, 2015
- NASA Experts Share Importance of Supercomputing at Annual Conference
- November 9, 2015
- Modular Supercomputer Cluster to Save Millions of Gallons of Water
Media Backgrounders
Our short media backgrounders on featured NASA demonstrations provide an introduction, quick facts, and pull quotes to use as a starting point for your own stories.
- Aeronautics – NASA-MIT Collaboration Could Transform Aircraft Design as We Know it
A NASA-MIT collaboration combines wind tunnel tests and advanced modeling and simulation of a new aircraft design that may reduce fuel consumption and lower airline operating costs. Get the story... 
- Our Planet – Counting Trees and Shrubs in the Sub-Sahara with Cloud Computing
Using an innovative combination of NASA and commercial cloud technologies, scientists are calculating woody biomass and stored carbon from the Sahara south to the savanna zones. Get the story... 
- Space Exploration – Building the Space Launch System Booster Separation Database
Tens of thousands of computational fluid dynamics simulations were used to build the most complex aerodynamic database in NASA's SLS program, which will help engineers validate the design of the solid rocket booster separation system. Get the story... 
- Astrophysics – New Simulations Explore the Origins of Star Clusters
Simulations spanning 700,000 years follow the gravitational collapse of giant clouds of magnetized gas, and the subsequent evolution of protostellar clusters, to help solve one of the most fundamental questions in astrophysics. Get the story...