NASA uses satellite lidar technology to study Earth’s forests, key carbon sinks. The GEDI mission maps forest height and biomass from the International Space Station, while ICESat-2 fills polar data ...

Starting off with the planets, Venus is hard to miss in the southwest after sunset – it's that dazzling bright "evening star." You’ll find it getting a bit higher in the sky each evening through the ...

Not visible bythe naked eye, plant fluorescence can be detected by instruments aboard satellites such as NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 ().Launched in 2014, OCO-2 has observed the U.S. Midwest ...

Mercury pops up toward the end of the month. Look for it quite low in the west, just as the glow of sunset is fading. It's highest and most visible on the 27th. Mars is still visible in the couple of ...

Technicians removed NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft from its shipping container on Thursday, May 29, after transferring it from the airlock into the high bay at ...

As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy -- then thought to be only a nebula-- was headed our way.A century later, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able ...

A galaxy ablaze with young stars is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Named NGC 685, this galaxy is situated about 64 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus ...

Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the Sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically ...

ARTEMOSS (Antarctic Isolate 1 (ANT1) Radiation Tolerance Experiment with Moss in Orbit on the Space Station) Principal Investigator: Dr. Agata Zupanska, University of Florida, Gainesville Overview: ...

Dr. Stanley Sander dedicated more than five decades to atmospheric science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, beginning his JPL career as a graduate research assistant in 1971. A leading figure in ...

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¡Un libro infantil en español sobre la aurora! Este libro, completamente ilustrado, enseña a los estudiantes cómo y por qué la NASA estudia el Sol. Está dirigido a estudiantes de kínder a cuarto grado ...