Space enthusiasts and families across the U.K. will have the chance to contribute directly to climate science through an ...

Vanguard’s new satellite is probably the most sophisticated bit of spaceware to leave the ground so far. Its job is to scan a broad belt around the earth, reporting on the cloud patterns that ...

Volcanic ash from eruptions can reshape cirrus clouds, forming giant ice crystals and altering how Earth traps heat in the ...

To help unravel those mysteries and others, the European Space Agency and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency lofted a satellite into orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The Earth Cloud ...

Climate scientists have struggled to explain Arctic warming, but a new study focuses on clouds that trap heat, acting like a ...

Caldwell 71: This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of stars reveals a portion of the open cluster Caldwell 71.

A first-of-its-kind satellite due to launch on Tuesday will be able to see through clouds and leafy canopies to assess how they are protecting the planet from climate change. The Biomass satellite ...

From data collection to processing, satellite systems continue to advance, and NASA is exploring how instruments analyzing clouds can improve data measurement methods. Researchers participating in ...

Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust from ... called FIMS-SPEAR that operated as an instrument on a Korean satellite called STSAT-1. The data had just been released publicly in 2023 ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.