NASA's Operation IceBridge gave three teachers—one each from the United States, Greenland and Denmark—an inside view of research by hosting a field research experience during the 2013 Arctic campaign.
Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) project launched 20 balloons from Antarctica to study the Van Allen Belts space weather phenomenon.
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch in June 2013. IRIS will deepen our understanding of how heat and energy move through the lower atmosphere of the sun.
On May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed CME that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.
99% of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003–2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed equally to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.
Strong winds sent a wall of ice crashing into cottages along the southwestern shore of Manitoba’s Dauphin Lake on May 10, 2013. A total of 27 houses near Ochre Beach were damaged, 13 beyond repair.
The Hurricane Season of the Eastern Pacific Ocean officially begins today, May 15 and NASA satellites captured imagery of the first named tropical storm, Alvin.
While we need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather, some people worry that a gigantic flare could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible.
The sun emitted a third significant solar flare in under 24 hours, peaking at 9:11 p.m. EDT on May 13, 2013. This flare is classified as an X3.2 flare.
The Aqua satellite provided this satellite image showing a series of hotspots found in the Siberian region of Russia. These hotspots have been categorized as wildfires rather than agricultural fires.
The GPM Ground Validation team collected a coordinated, co-scanned multi-radar frequency and dual-polarimetric dataset with the D3R and NPOL radars in a mixture of rain, snow and sleet.
