Near real-time preliminary data from NOAA's first Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the ...
Friday marks the beginning of a new era in the skies over much of Canada. A new satellite called GOES-19 will go into ...
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How we study our planet
We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.
Sixty-five years ago today, the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. TIROS-1 was an attempt to see if we Earthlings could learn anything useful ...
In an attempt to speed up quantum measurements, a new Physical Review Letters study proposes a space-time trade-off scheme that could be highly beneficial for quantum computing applications.
The Trump administration's staff cuts have led to reduced weather balloon launches at multiple sites, impacting real-time data collection. For decades, the National Weather Service (NWS) has ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...
SpaceX plans to send four astronauts into space during Fram2 while becoming the first human spacecraft to cross Earth's polar regions.