What Is the Impact of El Niño on Global Climate?
People the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New satellite…
NASA Awards Grants to Broaden STEM Education
NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected four minority serving institutions for cooperative agreement awards totaling approximately $2 million to help strengthen science, technology, engineering and math…
NASA Selects Student Teams for Rocket Launch Challenge
NASA selected 55 student teams from across the nation to participate in the 2015-2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, to be held April 13-17 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in…
NASA Confirms Water Flows on Mars
New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide evidence that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals…
NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education
NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected five universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $6 million to provide educator training and expand course offerings in science, technology,…