NASA’s OMG Mission Raises Plenty of New Questions
Only seven months after NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission wrapped its last field campaign on the world’s largest island, an OMG crew is back…
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Scientists Reproduce Origins of Life on Ocean Floor
New Project Seeks to Replicate the Cradle of Life
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration
NASA Confirms 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend
NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Captures Movement of Polar Vortex
New Discovery Signals Rapid Decay in Antarctic Glacier
Scientists Find Nebular Gases Preserved in Deep-Mantle Neon
NASA Discovers a Massive Crater Under Greenland Ice
NASA Satellites Map California Wildfires from Space
California continues to be plagued by wildfires — including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of…
NASA IceBridge Flight Spots Massive Antarctic Iceberg B-46
NASA’s Operation IceBridge on Wednesday, November 7, flew over an iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan – the first time anyone has…
International Space Station Image of the Frozen Wild Dnieper River
Curling snow drifts are magnified by the terrain around the 1,400 mile Dnieper River, flowing from Russia to the Black Sea. European Space Agency astronaut…
Operation IceBridge Spots 2 Strangely Shaped Icebergs
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16, 2018. During the survey, designed to assess…
Counting Down to the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Launch
In October 2018, we’re launching the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, to study Earth’s dynamic interface to space. Its combination of remote and in situ measurements will…
Apollo 7 Views Southern California
This view of southern California was taken by the Apollo 7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth, on Oct. 12, 1968. Photographed from…
NASA Satellite Captures 360-View of Hurricane Maria
Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite captured a 3D view of the 2017 storm. At…
Scientists Develop New Way to Measure Earth’s Magnetic Field
Researchers in Canada, the United States and Europe have developed a new way to remotely measure Earth’s magnetic field—by zapping a layer of sodium atoms…
ISS Image Captures the Creativity of Mother Nature
International Space Station Commander Alexander Gerst has a better view of our home planet than most. From aboard the orbital laboratory he sees Earth in…