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The findings are among the first to come out of $84 million worth of studies the Air Force funded in 2012.

A research team recommending that greater conservation measures be applied to two rare, dense coral garden communities that it discovered in the Gulf of Maine has three University of Maine connections.

A newly published paper by three UC San Diego astrophysics researchers for the first time provides an explanation for the origin of three observed correlations between various properties of molecular clouds in the Milky ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A twisted pattern of ancient light called B-modes has at last been detected with help from the Herschel space observatory.

A newly published paper by three UC San Diego astrophysics researchers for the first time provides an explanation for the origin of three observed correlations between various properties of molecular clouds in the Milky ...

Searching for potentially Earth-destroying asteroids isn't easy. They're dark, difficult to see from the surface of the planet, and there are a lot of them floating in the solar system.

Mongolia's nomads have roamed its sprawling grasslands for centuries, pitching their yurts wherever they find pasture for their animals, but now Tsogtsaikhan Orgodol is staying put as part of a scheme to tackle chronic o...

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Nitrogen fertilizer applied to crops lingers in the soil and leaks out as nitrate for decades towards groundwater - "much longer than previously thought," scientists in France and at the University of Calgary say in a ne...

A recently published study by U.S. Forest Service researchers evaluates potential revenues from harvesting standing timber killed by mountain pine beetle in the western United States. The study shows that while positive ...

Earth-observing satellites caught views of the Chelyabinsk meteor strike last winter from above, showing the value of having eyes in the sky to monitor such threats, researchers say.

While scanning the sky for the oldest cosmic light, ESA's Planck satellite has captured snapshots of some of the largest objects populating the Universe today: galaxy clusters and superclusters....

The twenty-eighth tropical depression of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean tropical cyclone season developed and strengthened into Tropical Storm Lekima.

Sometimes you’ve just got to get away from it all. From your planet, your Solar System and your galaxy. If you’re looking to escape, you’ll need to know just what velocity it’ll take to break the surly bonds of g...

NASA scientists use this plexiglass space station airlock test model to train astronauts for operations in space.

On-orbit astronaut Karen Nyberg proves Cady Coleman told 'Gravity's Sandra Bullock the truth: a single strand of human hair pushed against a handrail aboard the ISS sprang Nyberg backwards in microgravity.

Low pressure System 96E developed quickly over the weekend of Oct. 19 and 20 and by Oct. 21 had grown into Hurricane Raymond. Before Raymond exploded into a major hurricane NASA's Terra satellite flew overhead from space...

Several of NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites have been gathering data on Typhoon Francisco as it moves toward Japan. NASA's Aqua, Terra and TRMM satellites captured infrared, visible and rainfall data on the sup...

The thirteenth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean season formed today, Oct. 21 and NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured its development. NASA's GOES Project created an animation from the NOAA satellite imagery that...

This vivid Kompsat-2 space wallpaper shows the Amazon River in the heart of northern Brazil's rainforest. The false color makes land vegetation appear pink, while water appears green and dark blue.

NASA will conduct a sounding rocket launch at 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico carrying an experiment to support the calibration of the EUV Variability Experiment, or EV...

In an effort to study the circulation of ocean waters, a key component of the global climate system, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $16 million in grants over the next five years to oceanographers at D...