A late January 2026 winter storm left more than snow and ice in its wake.

A satellite built to measure Earth’s water has started answering a different kind of question. “What’s the shape of water?” ...

From orbit, Earth’s rivers look less like tranquil blue ribbons and more like power tools carving into a living planet. New ...

Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.

The NISAR mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO.) The satellite, which launched July 30 from India, is designed to observe and map Earth in detail to ...

NASA's Earth-observing satellites captured 12 significant events in 2025, revealing the planet's dynamic systems, from the Palisades fire burn scar in Los Angeles to the aftermath of a glacier ...

A U.S.-Indian Earth satellite's ability to see through clouds, revealing insights and characteristics of our planet's surface, is on display in a colorful, newly released image showing the Mississippi ...

Late January brought a harder edge to winter in the New York metropolitan area. After days of persistent cold, ice gathered ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA -SpaceX on November 17 launched NASA’s ‘Sentinel-6B’ satellite aimed at monitoring sea level change, the US space agency said. ‘Sentinel-6B’ is an Earth-observing satellite jointly ...

The last time someone photographed the exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere separating it from outer space, was in the 1970s from the surface of the Moon. This is a problem for two ...

The most recent breakthrough in human understanding of extreme weather events happened by accident. Tsunami physics has always been difficult to study, both because of their infrequency and the ...