Gazing up at the night sky from the edge of the Norwegian sea, you know you’re in an unusual place. The frigid winds stream across an open sky, painted by the dance of the northern lights. Outer space almost seems closer here. It turns out, that’s not so far from the truth.
An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland.
Thousand Oaks, California has been through a lot lately and its problems are not over yet. The Woolsey Fire broke out on November 08, 2018 and has already consumed 99,815 acres as of November 12.
Volcanoes help keep Earth warm, wet and habitable. Could volcanoes have played a similar role on other celestial bodies? Do they still? NASA Goddard scientists are trying to find out.
Nayeong Cho and Jaehwa Lee discovered their passion for atmospheric science in South Korea. They fell in love with each other in Los Angeles. Now married, they work together as atmospheric scientists researching aerosols at NASA Goddard’s Climate and Radiation Laboratory and, for vacation, sometimes take science field trips together.
The next generation of young entrepreneurs explored NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Oct. 26 as part of the Institute for Local Innovation (ILI) Technology Implementation Market Engine (T.I.M.E.) Challenge.
NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its 10th resupply mission to the International Space Station at 4:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 15, from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Live launch coverage will begin at 4:15 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
California has suffered from record-setting wildfires this past fire-season and now a late fire-season wildfire, the Camp Fire, has overtaken and nearly burned out the town of Paradise in Northern California.
This captivating image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 shows a lonely dwarf galaxy 100 million light-years away from Earth.
Late on Friday Nov. 2, 40 high school girls arrived at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a STEM-themed sleepover. The educational event offered young women a chance to meet working female scientists and engineers and to discover opportunities for women in STEM-related professions.
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 laid eyes on the giant iceberg, dubbed B-46 by the U.S. National Ice Center, that broke off from Pine Island Glacier in late October.
In 2017, NASA's Fermi mission played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs just five weeks apart. This wasn't just luck, but a product of research, analysis and development extending back more than a century.
Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star's surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone. Mission controllers received the status beacon from the spacecraft at 4:46 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2018. The beacon indicates status "A" — the best of all four possible status signals.
A new NASA laser instrument set to launch to the International Space Station in December will help scientists create the first three-dimensional map of the world’s temperate and tropical forests.
