Meteorologists around the world have gained access to something revolutionary during the past few years. Instead of relying ...

NOAA’s new generation polar-orbiting satellites are seeing a dramatic reduction in the amount of air pollution in the U.S., as the COVID-19 pandemic creates an economic and societal slowdown. “The ...

Every hurricane season, we become familiar with the counterclockwise-spinning spiral as the near-universal symbol for the storms. But that wouldn't have been possible without weather satellites to ...

Forecasters are set to lose some of their sharpest eyes in the sky just a few months before Atlantic hurricane season peaks when the Department of Defense halts a key source of satellite data over ...

An Ariane 6 lifts off Aug. 12 carrying the MetOp-SG-A1 weather satellite. Credit: SA-CNES-ARIANESPACE-ArianeGroup/Optique vidéo du CSG – S. Martin SALT LAKE CITY — An Ariane 6 successfully launched a ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is prepared for launch, carrying four commercial astronauts into a 90-degree inclination polar orbit WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four ...

The Space Force's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program will feature two geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites and two polar-orbiting spacecraft. (Lockheed Martin) Despite expectations ...

A quartet of civilian polar explorers returned from a 3.5-day spaceflight with SpaceX’s first crewed Dragon splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the culmination of a year-long effort to minimize the ...

Forecasters are expected to lose some of their sharpest eyes in the sky just a few months before Atlantic hurricane season peaks when the Department of Defense halts a key source of satellite data ...