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If you want to understand how interconnected our planet is—how patterns and events in one place can affect life half…
Meet the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit (ESRS), the researchers who guide astronauts as they observe and document changes…
From their home on the International Space Station, astronauts have a view unlike anything most of us will ever see.…
For 20 years, astronauts have been shooting photos of Earth from the space station. Like everything the astronauts do, they…
A race is on to figure out whether COVID-19 will wax and wane with the seasons. Atmospheric and hydrologic models…
A few decades ago, the idea of predicting a disease outbreak via satellite was science fiction. But today, researchers can…
Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica.
There is no award for completing the hike from Mexico to Canada through the western United States. But it is…
Swirling white clouds, deep blue oceans, and multicolored landscapes come to life on the pages of NASA’s new photo essay…
Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica. This timeline highlights the most notable calving events of…
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and river, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some…
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started…
