Climate Change

World Space Week 2024 features events centered on "Space & Climate Change," to celebrate the transformative impact of space technology in the ongoing battle against climate change.

The recently launched satellite has been watching the spread of aerosols from wildfire smoke, creating a catalog that scientists say would eventually benefit weather forecasting.

Satellite images have revealed the true extent of damage left in the wake of Greece's worst wildfire this year.

July is in the books as yet another record-setting month of extreme heat and weather.

Commercial airplanes have made strides in reducing carbon emissions, but it turns out the exhaust clouds trailing behind them can have long-term impacts on the environment.

"Having access to this accurate and localized NO2 data allows organizations like ours to understand the air quality challenges we encounter, and to advocate more effectively for the health and well-being of community residents."

Space.com got an up-close look at one of NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft to more about how data from weather satellites help them on missions.

A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.

New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the future. These changes could have major implications for humanity's future.

Over the years, satellites have played an important role in monitoring oceans and coral reefs all across the globe.