Scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory collected data on atmospheric pollution during flights spanning the breadth of northern Canada.
NASA's DC-8 airborne lab is carrying 22 sophisticated instruments and about 35 scientists during a series of flights for the ARCTAS mission in 2008.
NASA and its partners have begun the most extensive field campaign ever to study the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere.
Scientists are monitoring the amount and age of sea ice to see if the declining trend persists.
NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another.
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.
A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, fueling the loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath.
Lee-Lueng Fu, a senior research scientist at JPL, and a former JPL scientist have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering -- among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
Two different teams of ocean adventurers set records this winter crossing the Tasman Sea. Both used maps of ocean currents made possible by ocean-observing satellites.
On a Sunday morning in early February 2008, a laser pulse beamed down from 700 kilometers above Ivory Coast and took a 100-meter-wide picture of the atmosphere. It was CALIPSO's one-billionth measurement.