In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...

On May 17, 1974, NASA launched the first Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, SMS-1. This was the first satellite designed to monitor meteorological conditions from a geostationary orbit.

Thanks to a new satellite mission, researchers are now seeing the ocean’s tiny waves and swirling currents in clearer detail than ever before – and it’s changing the way we understand life in the sea.

In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists have achieved a breakthrough that they can detect the changes in a volcano from space with the help of satellite ...

Back in 2016, then-Observer contributor Wayne Northcross—now co-curator of the 2026 Detroit Queer Biennial, among other appellations—filed a brief update on a “stylish art collective” that ...

She has compared images collected with Landsat 8, NASA's Terra satellite, ESA's (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2, and other Earth-observing satellites to monitor trees around the Mount Etna ...

NASA tracks whale food via ocean color changes Gulf of Maine is key to whale feeding PACE satellite improves plankton detection ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona High-resolution satellite images have revealed dripping paint-like patterns on Mars that match those found on Earth, according to a new study. The familiar soil ...

The researchers published their findings online March 26 in the journal Icarus. Related: NASA rover discovers out-of-place 'Skull' on Mars, and scientists are baffled On Earth, soil patterns like ...

From the first spread of Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir “Maus,” one can already glean his signature mix of the autobiographical, the fictional and the poetic. “It was summer, I remember I ...

SpaceX boosted its carrying capacity of Starlink internet-beaming satellites to 29 during a predawn Falcon 9 rocket launch Sunday, May 4, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX did not publicly ...