Environment & Sustainability

But stay tuned: We’ve still got more to share about this Antarctic expedition, and the next ones scientists are already planning.

Senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to announce the move on Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot swaps sample processing hard drives inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. The scientific hardware processes research samples for an array of microbiology and physics experiments. NASA/Chris Williams Vein scans and pharmaceutical…

The launch of Explorer 1 on Jan. 31, 1958, initiated six decades of groundbreaking scientific discovery and human exploration that NASA and its partners continue to this day. The video and images here are available for download by media covering…

4 min read Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team…

When Brazil approved the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric complex on the Xingu River, in Pará state, the megaproject promised to profoundly change the national and local energy landscapes, creating a large offer of clean energy to power industries,…

7 min read Peering Homeward, 1972 By Laura Rocchio The scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard looking at the first MSS images were looking at just one band of data, so the images appeared black and white to them. The…

4 min read My NASA Experience By Marcia J. Rieke The development of infrared detector arrays is intertwined with my experiences working on NASA projects. As an astronomer at a university, my interactions with NASA all start with a proposal…

14 min read The Gestation of the Hubble By Nancy Grace Roman Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that…

HOJA BLANCO, Ecuador — Some parts of the rainforest in northwestern Ecuador used to be so dense and impenetrable that only a few hundred people were believed to live there. Even when loggers moved into the area in the 1980s…