NASA News & Feature Releases
Following are news and feature releases prepared by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) news and communications offices and by other NASA news services in connection with research and events at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Please see the GSFC Latest Features for other Goddard research news, or visit the NASA Featured News page sites for news from around NASA.
News and media professionals should address inquiries about GISS research to Peter Jacobs, Earth science communications lead at the GSFC Communications Office.
2026
2026-01-14: NASA Releases Global Temperature Data
2025
2025-01-10: Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record
2024
2024-12-18: NASA, Columbia U. Enact Collaborative Space Act Agreement
2024-11-24: NASA Data Reveals Role of Green Spaces in Cooling Cities
2024-09-11: NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date
2024-09-04: Earth Scientists Take Flight, Set Sail to Verify PACE Satellite Data
2024-07-24: NASA Data Shows July 22 Was Earth's Hottest Day on Record
2024-06-11: NASA Analysis Confirms a Year of Monthly Temperature Records
2024-03-05: Jennifer Krottinger: Designing Ways to Serve
2024-03-01: Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No
2024-02-08: NASA Launches New Climate Mission to Study Ocean, Atmosphere
2024-01-12: NASA Analysis Confirms 2023 as Warmest Year on Record
2023
2023-12-12: New NASA Satellite To Unravel Mysteries About Clouds, Aerosols
2023-10-13: NASA September 2023 Temperature Data Shows Continued Record Warming
2023-09-14: NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on Record
2023-08-14: NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880
2023-08-10: NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees of Warming
2023-07-25: NASA Selects Cross Divisional Teams for Astrobiology Research
2023-07-20: NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate Change
2023-07-13: NASA Finds June 2023 Hottest on Record
2023-02-08: NASA Selects Scientific Support for Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2023-01-31: Dorothy Peteet One of Four NASA Staff Named AAAS Fellows
2023-01-12: NASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend Continues
2022
2022-11-22: 5 Ways Supercomputing is Key to NASA Mission Success
2022-11-17: NASA Study: Massive Volcanism May Have Altered Ancient Venus' Climate
2022-05-05: NASA's Cynthia Rosenzweig Receives 2022 World Food Prize
2022-03-21: NASA Researcher Finding Ways to Turn Down the Heat in Cities
2022-02-02: NASA-Funded Study Extends Period When Mars Could Have Supported Life
2022-01-13: 2021 Tied for 6th Warmest Year in Continued Trend, NASA Analysis Shows
2022-01-13: Six Questions to Help You Understand the 6th Warmest Year on Record
2021
2021-11-17: Reducing Emissions to Mitigate Climate Change Could Yield Dramatic Health Benefits by 2030
2021-11-16: NASA Study Traces Decade of Ammonia Air Pollution in Africa
2021-11-01: Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years, NASA Study Finds
2021-09-08: NASA Drought Research Shows Value of Both Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
2021-09-01: Climate Change and Its Environmental Impacts on Crop Growth
2021-08-20: Drought Makes its Home on the Range
2021-08-11: NASA Helps Prep Central America for Hurricane Disasters to Come
2021-08-06: NASA Scientist Christian Braneon Receives AXA Award for Climate Science
2021-03-18: NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force
2021-02-03: NASA Study Finds Reduced African Grassland Fires Contribute to Short-lived Air Quality Improvements
2021-02-03: NASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor
2021-01-14: 2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows
2021-01-14: Climate Events of 2020 Show How Excess Heat is Expressed on Earth
2020
2020-07-27: In Memoriam, Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko
2020-01-24: How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds
2020-01-15: NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record
2019
2019-07-09: A Drier Future Sets the Stage for More Wildfires
2019-06-13: Earth's Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought
2019-05-23: New Studies Increase Confidence in NASA's Measure of Earth's Temperature
2019-05-09: NASA Education Program Fosters Climate of Discovery
2019-05-01: NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years
2019-02-06: 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend, According to NASA, NOAA
2018
2018-06-25: Will We Know Life When We See It? NASA-led Group Takes Stock of the Science
2018-01-18: Long-Term Warming Trend Continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA
2017
2017-11-15: Our Living Planet Shapes the Search for Life Beyond Earth
2017-10-19: New NASA Study Improves Search for Habitable Worlds
2017-10-03: Goddard Institute for Space Studies Scientist Wins 2017 Nordberg Award
2017-08-10: NASA Airborne Mission Returns to Africa to Study Smoke, Clouds
2017-08-02: Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere
2017-06-12: NASA-MIT Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge
2017-05-25: A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA's Juno Mission
2017-05-11: NASA Study Finds Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere Around “Warm Neptune”
2017-04-28: NASA Awards Goddard Institute For Space Studies Contract
2017-03-29: NASA-University Study Finds 11 Percent of Disappearing Groundwater Used to Grow Internationally Traded Food
2017-01-18: NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
1997-2015
NASA releases about GISS research for the years before 2017 are available in the archive.
