NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon in Antarctica.
A mechanical design engineer travels to the South Pole to help retrieve a science experiment.
Researchers plan to record changes in the Siberian forest as they navigate down the river in boats. Their goal is to get insight into global climate change.
NASA's Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora.
NASA is taking flight over the Arctic to uncover how pollution and wildfires may affect its atmosphere and sea ice.
NASA and its partners have begun the most extensive field campaign ever to study the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere.
For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
Researchers achieved a milestone in conducting scientific observations from balloons, launching three long-duration flights within a single Antarctic summer.
NASA's AIM satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface.
NASA data reveal the extent of the hole in 2007 was about average when compared to measurements from the last few decades.
A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence this summer of mysterious iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface.
Clouds play a significant role in how much of the sun's radiation reaches Earth's surface and what amount of heat energy Earth reflects back into the atmosphere.