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New research shows the blast triggered secondary gravity waves that rattled the upper atmosphere, where satellites orbit.
The Jones Road Fire tore through over 15,300 acres of drought-stricken Pine Barrens—leaving a smoky scar visible from space.
Several years ago, snow in New Zealand's Southern Alps turned red, and while many blamed wildfires at the time, new research uncovers the true culprit.
Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery.
A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms fall.
The truth might be simpler than what you likely learned in high school.
Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe.
Snow storms in the northern Rockies are depositing metal contaminants from mines in the Pacific Northwest, according to new research.
Weather balloon operations will stop or be reduced at 11 locations across the country due to staffing shortages caused by recent NOAA layoffs.
Hurricane Helene, which slammed into Florida's Big Bend in late September, caused the deaths of nearly 250 people—a number only dwarfed by the infamous 2005 storm.
After mass layoffs at NOAA, meteorologist Andrew Hazelton finds himself in a bureaucratic no man’s land—fired, then reinstated, but still unable to work.
A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.
Volcanologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory have been monitoring volcanic unrest since April of last year.
The hurricane jumped three Safford-Simpson hurricane categories in less than a day, and scientists now propose a new factor that contributed to the storm's evolution.
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.
Computer models that factor in the Sun's impact on Earth's surface temperatures are providing more accurate simulations of past earthquakes.
The behemoth A23a calved in 1986 and has been drifting across the Southern Ocean for the last five years.
An ultra-powerful eruption 79,500 years ago may not have disrupted the climate as badly as feared, according to Earth scientists.
About 10% of the NOAA workforce was laid off, according to some reports, in a move that could kneecap the agency's ability to forecast local and national weather events.
NASA satellites spotted five tropical cyclones churning in the Indian and Pacific Oceans late this month, revealing different points in the storms' developments.
