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Interactive Europa graphic provided by NASA We may all be focused on finding liquid water on Mars, but some planetary scientists are looking for liquid water in some very – VERY! – remote places. A…
Read more of Liquid water may exist near the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter
Your browser does not support the video tag. SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA’s work in human spaceflight, including the International Space Station…
Your browser does not support the video tag. How does climate change affect humans? That’s the question we asked Tom Wagner, Program Scientist for Cryospheric Research at NASA. In four different ways, he says, from…
In South Mississippi, counting pollen is usually done by sneezes. Or square feet. Not individually under a microscope. But, most of the pollen being counted by south Mississippians isn’t 60,000 years old. Trapped under the…
Your browser does not support the video tag. For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic’s permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth’s climate continues to warm, that…
Read more of Ask NASA: Melting arctic ice could lead to increase in atmospheric methane
Your browser does not support the video tag. Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes northward, usually reaching its annual minimum…
Back in 1998 NASA found this near-earth object. This asteroid is about the size of a small town – one to three kilometers wide. “The newly discovered [asteroid 1998 OR2 is] large enough to cause…
Read more of Another near-Earth asteroid won’t be this close again until 2090
Your browser does not support the video tag. Snow is one part of the cryosphere that many of us have actually encountered, but it also plays a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate. Through decades…
Your browser does not support the video tag. NASA missions are helping scientists study the cryosphere – the many forms of ice found on Earth. video and description courtesy of NASA
