For more than a decade, instruments on NASA satellites have revolutionized what scientists know about fire's role in land cover change, ecosystem processes, and the global carbon cycle.
In the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md., the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core satellite is steadily taking shape.
Heliophysicist Doug Rowland has secured a 2013 flight opportunity to the ISS for Firestation, a pint-sized instrument studying lightning in Earth's upper atmosphere, and must prepare for a veritable "fire hose" of data.
Three NASA interns were selected to speak at the International Astronautical Congress Plenary in Cape Town, South Africa, on Oct. 5.
Within just the past week, the East Pacific has seen a resurgence in tropical activity with the formation of three tropical systems
Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans.
Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record, narrowly avoiding a new low.
NASA's DEVELOP student research program closed out its summer session with a virtual poster session, and the results are posted here.
A NASA-funded method for forecasting earthquakes in California has received high marks in a comparative study of seven earthquake forecasts.
NASA's new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries.