Rainfall data from a NASA satellite show that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends.
A study finds that sediments deposited into the Mississippi River Delta thousands of years are contributing to the ongoing sinking of Louisiana's coastline.
Researchers now believe that some of the most intense winter storm activity over parts of the United States may have origins in far-flung parts of the Pacific Ocean.
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service successfully demonstrated technologies that improved real-time wildfire imaging and mapping.
NASA officials discuss NASA's Earth science program and preview major activities planned for 2008, including the launch of two new Earth-observing missions and a weather satellite.
Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland.
A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems, and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
A half-century ago, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Explorer 1 spacecraft became America’s first Earth-orbiting satellite when it sailed into space on Jan. 31, 1958.
NASA scientists have determined that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth’s second warmest year in a century.
Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast are all signs that this famous weather pattern is in full swing.