The mysterious origin of an impressive cloud disturbance on Venus has now been revealed by a team including the University of Tokyo. Researchers used numerical models to show that an enormous ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low Earth orbit. The growth in the population of satellites ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

Atmospheric dust plays a dual role in Earth's climate: it reflects some sunlight back into space while also absorbing and ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

NASA supercomputer models predict a dramatic collapse of Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere in approximately one billion years.

One of NOAA’s primary ocean-atmosphere models is now projecting that the Niño-3.4 index, the benchmark gauge of El Niño ...

The grit and grime swirling in Earth's atmosphere may be doing more than just clouding the horizon; it is acting as a ...