Daniel Phoenix Senior Data Scientist, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Daniel Phoenix earned his Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. His dissertation topic focused on utilizing numerical simulations to understand the effects of tropopause-overshooting thunderstorms on the chemical composition ofContinue Reading
4 Min Read NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Wraps Up Space Station Science NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with agency astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth after a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. During theirContinue Reading
Shan Kowalski Research Scientist, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Dr. Shan Kowalski is scientific researcher at NASA Langley Research Center and a mom of two girls. She obtained her M.S. (2007) and Ph.D (2011) in atmosphere science in France. In her M.S. project, sheContinue Reading
After nearly two weeks at sea without being able to launch his drone, New York Times photographer Chang W. Lee finally captures Antarctica from the air.Continue Reading
Is it hard to fly a helicopter in the Antarctic cold? What do penguins sound like? How about the instruments designed to test the waters below the Thwaites Glacier? Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong finds some answers to viewer questions.Continue Reading
International Summer School in Astrobiology The Josep Comas i Solà International Astrobiology Summer School is held annually in Santander, Spain. The Josep Comas i Solà International Summer School in Astrobiology is co-directed by the NASA Astrobiology Program and the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA-CSIC, at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), sponsored byContinue Reading
Artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is known to have seven Earth-sized rocky planets orbiting a red dwarf star. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) View Image Details/Downloads After scientists using the ground-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) spotted what looked like three planets orbiting aContinue Reading
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We are in the solar-powered century, although some are taking their time to figure this out. By Dan Gearino There’s a lot happening right now in U.S. energy and policy and it’s easy to lose track of the larger picture. I’m going to ask you to turn your attention, atContinue Reading
Federal scientists have found that 2025 was among the hottest years on record since the Industrial Revolution, continuing a warming trend and bringing Earth closer to a crucial threshold.Continue Reading
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NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022, beginning the 4.2-mile journey to Launch Complex 39B. NASA/Ben Smegelsky The weather guidelines for NASA’s Artemis II flight testContinue Reading
Explore This Section … Citizen Science Projects OSDR AWG Projects Highlights Publications NASA Citizen Scientists Science Activation Resources Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups (OSDR AWG) How does life that’s evolved here on Earth react to the radiation-rich, gravity-poor environment of space? It’s an important question to askContinue Reading