A NASA-led team of scientists took to the Chesapeake Bay this summer to determine how to study water and air quality in coastal regions from space.
Norman Loeb, the principal investigator for CERES, explains the benefit a long-term, continuous record of climate measurements is so important.
The latest CERES instrument, on board NPP satellite, will continue 27 years of data on the solar energy reflected and absorbed by Earth, the heat the planet emits and the role of clouds in that process.
NASA's Aquarius instrument has successfully completed its commissioning phase and is now "tasting" the saltiness of Earth's ocean surface, making measurements from its perch in near-polar orbit.
The J-2X engine's fuel turbopump first stage nozzle passed a test to ensure it can withstand its extreme operating environment.
As temperatures soared across the Great Plains this July, NASA satellites observed the unusual weather from above.
On Tuesday, Aug. 30, NASA's next climate science satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to begin preparations for an October launch.
Two of the most destructive natural disasters of 2010 were closely linked by a single meteorological event, even though they occurred 1,500 miles (2,414 km) apart and were of completely different natures, a new NASA study suggests.
The U.S. East Coast shook from an unusually strong earthquake for the area on Aug. 23, 2011, centered near Mineral, Va., about 40 miles from Richmond.
Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm.
In the wake of Hurricane Irene’s heavy rains, sediment filled many rivers and bays along the U.S. East Coast and New York’s Hudson River and estuary was no exception.
NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.
Our planet Earth is not expanding, as some scientists had previously speculated.
Researchers have discovered a warped and complicated pattern in the depths of the faults that triggered an April 2010 earthquake in Mexico.
NASA's Gulfstream III research aircraft completed a brief Alaskan volcanoes radar imaging mission Aug. 1-4; now the lengthy data analysis work begins.
Scientists conducted airborne validation of four laser techniques for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide aboard NASA’s DC-8 flying lab in late July.
The Operational Land Imager (OLI), built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., has been approved by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for shipment to Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz. for integration onto the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft.
Scientists observed for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away.
NPP has successfully completed its most comprehensive end-to-end compatibility test of the actual satellite and all five scientific instruments.
NASA-funded research has discovered that some of the basic building blocks of life may have been brought to a young Earth by meteorites.