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Laura Duncanson and Amy Neuenschwander help lead a groundbreaking effort to map Earth’s forests using satellite lidar. By combining data from GEDI and ICESat-2, they reveal hidden carbon hotspots ...
Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...
Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at ...
NASA scientists have found that eruptions on the Sun are resulting in Starlink satellites falling to Earth “faster than expected”. The US space agency’s Goddard Space Flight ... year when a piece from ...
After flooding caused wreckage across the Texas Hill Country, NASA’s Disaster Program resources were brought in to provide ...
An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...
A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...
NASA satellite emits 'spark' decades after going dormant: Astronomers think they know why Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 ...
NASA discovers link between Earth’s core and life-sustaining oxygen Date: June 27, 2025 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field ...
The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions.
The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...
A NASA satellite that had been dead for nearly six decades issued a surprising sign of life. In June 2024, a team of astronomers was perplexed when a radio telescope in Australia scanning the sky ...