News & Feature Articles
Following are news releases, features and updates about research at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies written by NASA news services, GISS personnel, and affiliated offices. (Page 10 of 15)
NASA Study Improves Search for Habitable Worlds
New NASA research is helping to refine our understanding of candidate planets beyond our solar system that might support life.
(2017-10-19)
GISS Scientist Wins 2017 Nordberg Award
Tony Del Genio, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 William Nordberg Memorial Award.
(2017-10-03)
GISS Scientists Select Best Institute Paper of 2016
Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the article “Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?” by Michael Way et al. as the top work among over 180 research publications by institute staff published in 2016.
(2017-08-25)
Another Hot July
July 2017 was statistically tied with July 2016 as the warmest July in the 137 years of modern record-keeping.
(2017-08-22)
Core Questions: An Introduction to Ice Cores
How drilling deeply can help to understand climates of the past and predict climates of the future.
(2017-08-15)
NASA Airborne Mission Returns to Africa to Study Smoke, Clouds
NASA's P-3 research plane begins flights this month through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to understand how aerosols change the properties of clouds.
(2017-08-10)
Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on a planet outside our solar system on WASP-121b, an exoplanet described as a "hot Jupiter".
(2017-08-02)
Atmospheric Circulation Shifts Alter Clouds, Affect Climate Sensitivity
Shifts in atmospheric circulation and consequent changes in cloud cover lead to differing temperature effects in the north and south hemispheres. How well climate models simulate this influences their climate sensitivity.
(2017-06-26)
Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Gas Sponge
Models of Atlantic circulation find the ocean absorbs atmospheric gases more easily than heat energy, and that slowing circulation reduces its ability to absorb both.
(2017-06-12)
A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA's Juno Mission
Early results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the giant planet as a complex world with Earth-sized polar cyclones, deep-diving storm systems, and a lumpy magnetic field generated deeper than once thought.
(2017-05-25)
Study Finds Primitive Atmosphere Around 'Warm Neptune'
A study combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant exoplanet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
(2017-05-11)
NASA Awards Goddard Institute For Space Studies Contract
NASA has awarded a contract to SciSpace LLC of Bethesda, Maryland, for specialized scientific support services to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
(2017-04-28)
