To say the least, it was incredible. The news relayed by the voice on the other end of the phone line hit the president of the San Gabriel Valley Radio Club like a blow to the head. Too incredible, Henry Richter hoped, to be true.
Melting Arctic sea ice has shrunk to a 29-year low, significantly below the minimum set in 2005.
A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet.
NASA scientific sleuths solve mystery and help save the U.S. Constitution and other legendary icons of political prose.
Hinode has recorded startling images of tempermental sunspot 10926.
NASA and NOAA fly over the Great Lakes searching for harmful algae blooms.
Students at the U.S. Naval Academy are building a satellite called "MidSTAR-2" through a U.S. Department of Defense program that will carry four experiments into space in 2011 to look at different parts of Earth's atmosphere, gamma rays and solar winds.
The International Polar Year will have unprecedented access to an out-of-this-world platform -- 210 miles up in space.
A year after launch, NASA's CloudSat mission is providing insights into how clouds form, evolve and affect our weather, climate and freshwater supply.
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.