NASA's Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora.
NASA is taking flight over the Arctic to uncover how pollution and wildfires may affect its atmosphere and sea ice.
The nation's largest estuary just happens to be in the backyard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Boosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Niñas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
Satellite and ground-based observations confirm that summertime melt contributes to the speed up of ice loss in Greenland, but that the seasonal melt is not as critical a factor as other causes.
Researchers compiled seven years of data from NASA's QuikScat satellite to create a never-before-available monthly atlas of how frequently high winds blow over the open oceans.
The Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites, or ARCTAS, is the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere.