Tens of thousands of people living within the danger zone of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines were forced to evacuate…
NASA flies three large, multi-sensor satellites that monitor Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and energy balance. Because the instruments on each…
The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:52 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 20, carrying…
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, Dec.…
As interest in Earth's changing climate heats up, a tiny dark particle is stepping into the limelight: black carbon. Commonly…
A fast-moving knot of auroras is poised to collide with a slower moving curtain hanging over the Arctic.
This image of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) from the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere Cloud Imaging and Particle Size…
This Global Digital Elevation Model, or GDEM, is a product of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),…
Investigators pore over the site of the nose-first, high-impact JF-104A crash that left this large crater in the desert near…
NASA research pilot Milt Thompson poses in front of an F-104 similar to the one from which he ejected on…