Space & Planetary Science

(DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory) Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and at the Swiss Center for...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new research unit focusing on the determination of...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Cyclone Ula affected the Fiji group of islands over the weekend of Jan. 2 and...

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Studying the internal structure of pulsating stars, physicists discover strong magnetic fields in the...

(University of British Columbia) Researchers have found a new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Cyclone Ula formed on Dec. 30 and continued tracking south of Pago Pago as NASA...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Depression 9C formed in the Central Pacific, 30 days after the official end to the...

(Penn State) A new way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein's theory of General Relativity using brief...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) As Tropical Cyclone Ula was coming together, NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an image of the consolidating...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Widespread flooding has recently affected South America and Paraguay has been especially hard hit. A NASA...

(American Geophysical Union) This week from AGU: data science, blogs from the fall meeting, and three new papers.

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite analyzed extreme weather that affected the US...

(Case Western Reserve University) A Case Western Reserve University faculty member has received National Science Foundation and other funding to...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) An animation of satellite imagery over the course of two days shows a massive low pressure...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's massive clean room in Greenbelt, Maryland, the ninth flight mirror...

(World Scientific) Astrophysicist and award-winning writer Ethan Siegel recounts the entire development of modern cosmology, including relativity, the expanding universe,...

(York University) Michael Daly, a York University researcher, is the lead scientist on a laser altimeter that will map the...

(University of Helsinki) The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar is the oldest preserved historical document of naked eye observations...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) When Tropical Storm Melor was raining on Luzon in the northern Philippines, the GPM satellite analyzed...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) A sophisticated laser-based mapping instrument has arrived at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver for integration...