The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in November without a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels and without significant progress in strengthening national pledges to reduce climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. In aggregate, today’s climate policies remain far too unambitious to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of capping global warming atContinue Reading
“We’re here to talk about really substantive changes, and we want you to be a participant in that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Annual Research Conference thatContinue Reading
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3 min read NASA Adds Two F-15 Aircraft to Support Supersonic Flight Research Oregon Air National Guard ground crew guides one of the NASA’s newest F-15 aircraft onto the ramp at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. The retired U.S. Air Force F-15sContinue Reading
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