Many spacecraft have died trying to get to Mars. The current record for Mars missions is 18 successes, and 25 failures. The InSight mission hopes to improve the odds.

After Hurricane Harvey in Texas, many people evacuated their homes and are now living in shelters. Leaving home during an emergency was especially difficult for parents of small children. Even though they brought supplies when they left...

Louisiana was struck by two hurricanes within six weeks in 2020. Hurricane Laura was a powerful Category 4. Hurricane Delta was a Category 2. The two hurricanes made landfall in almost the same location. Combined, they took dozens of...

In 2018, Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It was a Category 5 storm that may have killed 3,000 people. This 90 billion-dollar extremely powerful storm was a catastrophe in property damage, destruction, and deaths due to...

You can learn English vocabulary in the best possible way with this video—by learning the correct pronunciation of English words directly from an English speaking teacher that is also a native speaker! You’ll learn English pronunciation...

Suzy Klein talks about the third movement in Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Staying safe in all kinds of weather and avoiding weather-related injuries are the focus of this practical video. Concepts and terminology: lightning, tornado, wind, hurricane, and safe shelter.

Every summer, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert move into the Atlantic and travel westward. Here, you'll see it on satellite.

Lightning in the clouds is directly linked to events that produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). An instrument aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was recently...

The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and...

Learn about Paul Cezanne, one of the greatest painters of our time.

At times, an ominous cloud band forms on the forward or leading edge of a thunderstorm. It is part of the thunderstorm gust front, called a shelf cloud, because it hangs out in front of the storm like a shelf. It may be smooth on the...

The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and...

This video explores five fun facts about Thunder.

A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...

Forests are living, ever changing ecosystems, affected by aging, natural disasters and human interventions.
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Annual maps of the lower-48 United States produced from satellite data illustrate how these...

Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA-Japan Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite captured a 3-D view of the storm. At the time...

Dan Blanchard has done his homework. He’s been an inner-city school teacher and athletic coach for 20 years and has a passion for teaching, inspiring, and working with teens. “It’s tough for a lot of kids today. They don’t always have...

Hurricanes form when warm humid air rises from the ocean. Convergent winds force the warm air into the atmosphere, where it releases latent heat as it condenses into clouds and rain. The exchange of the heat from the surface creates a...

In this episode of On Location, Coyote and crew get caught in Typhoon Trami during their trip to Japan! Will a typhoon stop them from exploring a compound, catching frogs, or even entering the eye of the storm? Of course not!

About a thousand times a day, thunderstorms fire off fleeting bursts of some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. These events, called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), last less than a millisecond and...

The HIWRAP is the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler, a "conically scanning" Doppler radar, meaning it scans in a cone-shaped manner. Wind measurements are crucial for understanding and forecasting tropical storms...

This video explores five fun facts about the Blizzards.

This video explores five fun facts about hurricanes