Landsat 8 is operational and producing more than 400 images per day, adding to the deep archive collected since 1972.
Astronaut Dan Burbank recently returned to the Kennedy Space Center and spoke about his experiences during five months aboard the International Space Station.
The early start of the 2013 season appears to be caused by a change in atmospheric “teleconnections,” connections between different layers of the atmosphere that operate over great distances.
University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere.
Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years.
TRMM data showed rainfall totals on the order of ~16 to 20 inches stretching from the eastern tip of the Yucatan to western Cuba and over the southeast Gulf of Mexico.
Airborne and satellite mission over southern U.S. this summer to study how pollution and natural emissions affect atmospheric composition and climate.
The massive tornado that devastated portions of Moore, Okla. and surrounding areas on May 20 scarred the landscape for miles, as seen in a new NASA spacecraft image.
NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot reported on the space agency's current and future initiatives during an employee briefing on June 4.
A NASA team delivered a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past.
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched, for the second time, the largest solar telescope ever to leave ground, to observe the sun's magnetic fields.
NASA transferred operational control of the Landsat 8 satellite (formerly LDCM) to the U.S. Geological Survey in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.
NASA's multi-year Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel mission may explore tropical cyclones of Cape Verde origins when it takes to the skies again this August.
Hurricane Barbara recently made landfall along the southern Pacific coast of Mexico and NASA’s TRMM and Suomi NPP satellites captured rainfall rates within the storm, and a night-time image of landfall.
NASA's HS3 airborne mission will revisit the Atlantic Ocean to investigate storms using additional instruments and for the first time two Global Hawks.
Century-Old Science Helps Confirm Global Warming
NASA's Operation IceBridge hosted three science teachers during their recent Arctic field campaign, giving these educators a first-hand polar science experience that they could use to teach and inspire their students.
NASA’s instruments for the next in a series of missions to chart sea level and improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts have shipped overseas for spacecraft integration.
A new feature of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission will help ensure scientists get a cloud-free view of Earth from space.
NASA and NOAA satellites observed the severe storm system that spawned the Moore, Okla., tornado on May 20, 2013.