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'Florida's new sentinel in the sky': NOAA's GOES-U satellite to help hurricane forecasters
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThursday, NASA hosted a media "meet-and-greet" so journalists could see the spacecraft inside a...
Powerful new NOAA weather satellite set for June launch atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy
SPACE.com· 7 days agoAt the beginning of the year, the fourth satellite in NOAA's GOES-R series made the journey from its...
Northern lights may be visible in the US today
Newsweek· 3 days agoThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SPWC) has put out a G1 geomagnetic storm watch for June 4...
Extreme solar storms took tractors in circles while farmers were planting crops
FOX 7 Austin· 5 days agoGeomagnetic storms can disrupt the power grid, communications, airline systems and satellite systems...
Northern lights could return to US with another geomagnetic storm
FOX 7 Austin· 7 days agoThe sunspots that brought breathtaking Northern Lights to much of the U.S. earlier in May are back,...
Can satellites combat wildfires? Inside the booming ‘space race’ to fight the flames
The Columbian· 5 days agoAs the threat of wildfire worsens in California and across the world, a growing number of federal...
Twisting Fury: The Science Behind the EF-4 Tornado That Ravaged Iowa
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoThe destructive tornado destroyed homes, downed wind turbines and power lines, snapped trees, and...
What is rapid intensification? Here’s what happens to hurricanes and why it’s so dangerous
The Biloxi Sun Herald· 4 days agoResearch has suggested that the rapid intensification of hurricanes could become more frequent.
The Science Of Why You Might See Palm Trees In Ireland
Forbes· 6 days agoThis time it comes from my daughter and some of her cohort who recently studied abroad in the United...
‘Hole-punch' in the sky: Clouds created by airplanes
AccuWeather via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHole punch clouds in Alabama in 2003 (NWS-Mobile) and Mississippi in 2007 (AccuWeather/JWesley). Residents of New York and Vermont reported seeing a...