Contamination control engineers in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center evaluate a propellant tank before it is installed in our Europa Clipper spacecraft. […]
An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean, and atmospheric scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth’s melting ice sheets could have on global sea levels by 2100.4. […]
This year’s melt season in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas started with a bang, with a record low maximum extent in March and relatively rapid ice loss through May. […]
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. […]
Two key climate change indicators — global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent — have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. […]
The intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too close. When X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, they were detected by NASA’s Swift satellite, which notified astronomers around the world. […]
Astronomers rethink theories of galactic change thanks to a new study using the Keck telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. […]
NASA’s little-known Swift spacecraft continues to amaze astronomers with its ability to detect and locate gamma-ray bursts. […]
Florida Tech student helps NASA analyze lunar dust collected during moon missions 40 years ago. […]
