Advances in space technology offer a groundbreaking solution: deploying large-scale cloud data centers in Earth’s orbit.

Clouds are one of the most intriguing and complex aspects of Earth's atmosphere. They can cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space, or they can warm it by trapping heat. This dual ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

Earlier this year, NASA's Terra satellite was zipping over the Gulf of Mexico when one of its instruments snapped a photo of some odd-looking clouds. The clouds looked like someone had taken a ...

A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are excited about it.

Low clouds may have spoiled the view from the ground, but a Falcon 9 set a new record early Saturday as SpaceX pushes reusability.

Instead, a thick blanket of clouds kept the sky in shades of gray. But while we couldn’t see the sun from the ground, satellites peering down from space captured something remarkable—dark ...