Earth's Moon

To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission surveyed the coast of the world’s largest island.

New research shows the dominant color has changed in about one-third of large rivers in the continental United States over the past 35 years.

Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to NASA and NOAA.

The Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon, Ice Moon, the Moon after Yule, and the Old Moon.

Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA will release their annual assessments of global temperatures on Jan. 13, 2022.

This page showcases our resources for those interested in learning more about ocean worlds.

Our 2021 round-up of NASA planetary science is packed with the year’s most spectacular images, ground-breaking discoveries, and incredible mission events.

Two compact science instruments are designed to make the same high-quality atmospheric observations as weather satellites many times their size.

As the space station enters its third decade of continuous human presence, the impact of microgravity research conducted there keeps growing.

The COWVR and TEMPEST instruments could lead the way to big improvements in gathering key information for weather forecasting.

For the Northern Hemisphere, the winter (December) solstice happens around Dec. 21-22.

NASA will launch four Earth science missions in 2022 to provide scientists with more information about fundamental climate systems.

Snoopy, the Zero G Indicator for the Artemis I mission, was delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 2, 2021.

You can have all the dates and times for all the Moon phases for 2022 at your fingertips by building your own Moon phases calendar and calculator!

The new system improves NASA's capabilities to assess the impact risk of asteroids that can come close to our planet.

This image shows how Earth looked during the total solar eclipse visible in Antarctica on Dec. 4, 2021.

Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it’ll be tricky, even from up close.

The heat shield skin for the Artemis IV mission, the third crewed mission to the Moon, is now at Moffett Federal Airfield.

The camera aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft imaged Saturn on Oct. 13, 2021.

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite is targeted for launch in 2022.

The 3D real-time visualization tool lets users track NASA satellites as well as the vital Earth science data they provide.

The next full Moon is the Beaver Moon, and there will be a near-total lunar eclipse.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson laid out the path forward for early Artemis missions that will pave the way for lunar surface missions.

Earth’s atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic.

NASA has selected a new Earth science mission that will study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms.