New satellite launched by ESA uses Infrared Sounder instrument to form the most detailed map of Earth's atmosphere.

The first images from the European Space Agency’s MTG-S satellite offer an early look at how the mission will improve weather ...

Hurricanes are one of the most deadly and destructive forces on Earth, causing unfathomable damage, uprooting lives and trees ...

Humanity has changed an awful lot in the past 58 Years. The moon? Not so much. It was in 1968 that astronauts first drew near ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

The highest place on Earth is not necessarily the one most people picture when they imagine standing closest to the stars.

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important.

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery.