WASHINGTON -- A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world. The Mercury Surface, Space Environment,…

Four-year agreement supports projects totaling $7.2 million Healthy coral reef. Photo courtesy NOAA NOAA and The Nature Conservancy have entered into an agreement to protect the health of the nations valuable but increasingly vulnerable coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean,…

Daylight Saving Time (DST) will end on Sunday, November 1, 2009. On November 1 at 2 AM local time, clocks should be set back one hour (to 1 AM local time) to switch from DST to Standard Time. (This does…

Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comba…

Wide-spread melt ponds observed by NOAA's North Pole Web cam. Photo courtesy NOAA Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years…

El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United States, according to the 2009 Winter Outlook released by NOAAs…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the availability of a new online resource for local governments that assists community leaders and local stakeholders in building sustainable local solar markets. The online publication, Solar Powering Your Community: A Guide…

PASADENA, Calif. -- Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036. The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of…

WASHINGTON -- NASAs Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications for the 2010 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 11, 2010. NASA expects to award 20 undergraduate and five graduate scholarships to students in aeronautics or related fields.…

Patent issued to Goal Zero, a subsidiary of Provo Craft and Novelty WASHINGTON Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) David Kappos was joined by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)…

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes -…

An artists rendering of the asteroid impact that took place 65 million years ago and likely killed off nearly every large vertebrate species on the planet, including, many think, the dinosaurs. Photo courtesy Don Davis/NASA In 1980, Luis Alvarez and…