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An international team of experts supported by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) has combined data from multiple satellites and aircraft to produce the most comprehensive and accurate assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica and their contributions to sea level rise.

Wave action and glacial dynamics split another chunk of ice off of the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2013.

One of LDCM’s sensors can detect faint cirrus clouds that can slightly alter a scene.

Three striking photographs of Pavlof Volcano reveal the three-dimensional structure of the eruption plume.

Evolution of deadly storms over Oklahoma, viewed by GOES-East.

One of LDCM’s sensors can detect faint cirrus clouds that can slightly alter a scene.

Satellites don't take videos; they capture still images. But in a new mosaic, 56 stills have been stitched together to present a seamless video flyover of what LDCM saw one day in April 2013.

Data from a British high-seas scientific expedition in the 1870s have provided further confirmation of human-produced global warming over the past century.

Supercomputers have helped reveal that galaxies bulk up in mass by feeding off cosmic swirly straws of gas.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with members of the asteroid initiative team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.

A supercell thunderstorm system spawned a destructive tornado near Oklahoma City on May 20, 2013.

A cool spring left several lakes in northern Minnesota covered in ice, weeks beyond the norm.

Acquired May 16, 2013, this image shows Mahasen shortly after making landfall in Bangladesh.

NASA's instruments for the next in a series of missions to chart sea level and improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts have shipped overseas for spacecraft integration.