The real world impacts of sea level rise can been seen in costal communities, like the Hampton Roads area in Virginia. Learn how the City of Norfolk and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VI...
Tuesday, May 5, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is welcoming our new Earth Science Division director, Dr. Karen St. Germain. She will join our team June 8. Her enthusiasm and the experience she ...
The 13-year old student who submitted the name for NASA's next Mars rover - Perseverance - has been spending some of his time building his own version of a rover with #NASAatHome. Visit this site f...
Have you heard about an asteroid close-approach happening on April 29? Asteroid 1998 OR2 poses no threat to our planet, but we can still learn a lot by studying it. Don't miss a special Planetary D...
Everything from pens to people gives off heat. How much heat plants give off can tell us a lot about how healthy or stressed they are, which in turn helps us grow better, healthier crops. USDA rese...
You might be spending a lot of time at home right now, with family and roommates. Imagine that scenario, but instead of your house, you're living in a tent in Antarctica, sharing food and supplies ...
NASA takes to the air to do science! From flying from a few hundred feet over the ground to flying just on the edge of space, planes help us study our home planet. Dean Neeley is a NASA pilot, shar...
While satellites orbit high above us, collecting hundreds of terabytes of data, Lori Perkins works down here on Earth to make that data visible. She takes the abstract measurements from the satelli...
Going airborne for science! NASA doesn't just study our planet from space -- we also have airborne missions measuring clouds, storms, ice and more from planes. Dave Fedors is a pilot flying some of...
Scientific instruments can "see" in ways our eyes can't. Mark Helminger builds and travels with remote sensing instruments that can measure chemistry, moisture and more on Earth and other planets. ...
Every summer, Peter Griffith travels with a team of researchers to Alaska and Canada, where they study the Arctic from planes, satellites and the ground. The Arctic is warming faster than the rest ...
The ocean still holds many secrets. Oceanographers like Ivona Cetinic and James Fox investigate the deep ocean from satellites, as well as long ocean journeys on research vessels, all to better und...
Michael Freilich was the director of NASA's Earth Science division. He takes us on a 50-year journey, highlighting the way NASA has answered questions we didn't know to ask on the first Earth Day, ...
We're observing Earth Day from home this year. Whether we're curled up on the couch or in the microgravity on the International Space Station, there's a way to appreciate our little rock in space. ...
How does NASA combine art and science? Join artist Jenny Mottar as she explains her inspiration and process for creating the 2020 NASA Earth Day poster. Download a free copy of the poster, or a ver...
Join Associate Administrator for NASA Science Missions Thomas Zurbuchen in this talk about humanity’s innate nature to look up into the sky and seek answers to the mysteries of the universe. We are...
On March 3, 2020, NASA Science Mission Directorate leadership hosted a virtual community town hall to discuss the implementation of dual-anonymous peer review. The town hall provided key informatio...
Scientists are using AMS-02 on the Space Station to study fundamental particles originating from sources up to billions of light years away. These particles may hold the key to understanding both t...
For eleven years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice,...
A key ocean observation satellite launching this fall has been named after Earth scientist Michael Freilich, as announced Jan. 28 by NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), the European Organisation for...
OSIRIS-REx – NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission – has spent the last year studying asteroid Bennu. The mission has extensively mapped Bennu in order to better understand the asteroid and t...
OSIRIS-REx – NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission – has spent the last year studying asteroid Bennu. The team is now ready to reveal its final primary and back-up sample collection sites. Jo...
The International Space Station provides the only microgravity environment in which we can test technologies critical to our deep-space exploration in the near and far-term future.
What mysteries about our star is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission uncovering as it journeys closer to the Sun than any human-made object ever before? Watch this episode of #NASAScience Live as exp...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is getting closer to the Sun than any human-made object ever before. If you put Earth and the Sun on opposite ends of an American football field, Parker Solar Probe would ...
Parker Solar Probe - NASA's mission to touch the Sun - has revealed new discoveries about our star. Principal Investigators for some of the mission's instruments share their excitement about this n...
In this moving video, Dr. Eugene Parker - the Sun scientist for which Parker Solar Probe is named - sees some of the first discoveries returned from the mission.
NASA's mission to touch the Sun - Parker Solar Probe - has made new discoveries about our star. Tune in to watch #NASAScience Live Dec. 4 at 3:00pm ET to hear about this new and exciting science.
AMS-02 is helping scientists investigate many fundamental physics questions from its place on the space station. Astronauts are conducting a series of spacewalks to perform repairs and extend the l...
How do we study black holes if we can’t even see them? Could a black hole “eat” an entire galaxy? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Join experts on #NASAScience Live as we take a jou...
This Halloween, we’re taking you on a journey to the darkest corners of our universe – where invisible forces draw galaxies together, and dark energy rips them apart. We’ll travel to worlds with un...
Join experts as we discuss the most complex telescope ever created by humans – the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb will be like a powerful time machine with infrared vision that will peer back ove...
At any given time, there is a fire burning somewhere on Earth. Join experts Thursday, September 12 at 3 p.m. EDT for a closer look at how fires are part of our changing planet. As the climate warms...
Neptune will be at opposition in September, providing sky watchers and astronomers the opportunity to observe this planet that is invisible to the naked eye, but that scientists would love to see m...
From the historic Apollo splashdown to the future Artemis landing, we’re celebrating 50 years of human exploration and science on the Moon. This special edition of NASA Science Live will take viewe...