Using a combination of theoretical modeling, energy calculations, and field observations, researchers have for the first time described a mechanism that explains how some of the ocean's tiniest swimming animals can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing. (California Institute of Technology press release)
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
One researcher has used a decade's worth of NASA satellite data to revise old models of plankton blooms in the North Atlantic.
Oceanographer Gene Feldman has studied the Galapagos Islands for 25 years. This summer, he visits them for the first time.
With a push of her right foot on a shovel Friday morning, Lesa Roe celebrated the 92nd birthday of NASA's Langley Research Center by ushering in its future.
A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful Feb. 24 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory has completed its report.
Scientists using 2009 NASA satellite data have reported a rapid and extreme loss of the oldest and thickest types of ice from within the Arctic Ocean.
A NASA research plane crisscrossed the southern Great Plains studying small particles in the air and their relationship to climate change.
Two JPL instruments that are helping improve our understanding of Earth's atmosphere and global change mark five years in orbit this week.
Josh Willis, an oceanographer at JPL, has been honored by President Barack Obama with the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record.
Future concentrations of CO2 and ozone in the atmosphere and nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways.
A fleet of airplanes outfitted with sensors set out in the spring and summer of 2008 to study pollution in the Arctic atmosphere.
JPL scientist Bjorn Lambrigtsen, who goes on hurricane watch every June, lists five thoughts about hurricane research.
Earthquakes: they're among the most frightening and deadly of all natural disasters.