A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket treated stargazers in Europe to a surprise display on the night of June 23, when ...

A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Covering the western Pacific Ocean region, including Australia, is the Japanese Meteorology Agency's Himawari 9 satellite.

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...

Live updates from Monday morning's SpaceX Starlink 10-23 mission and ULA-Amazon Project Kuiper 2 mission from Cape Canaveral ...

Altocumulus clouds over the Southern Ocean and Antarctic coast. ... Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org for daily insights.

A striking image of a massive bloom of phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms that often float near the surface of the ocean—has been captured from space in the Gulf of Maine. Coccolithophores ...