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 monstrous storm system tore across the U.S. in March 2025, igniting wildfires, spawning tornadoes, and blanketing Texas in ...

The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite took this image of Tropical Storms Norbert (bottom left) in the Eastern Pacific and Dolly (right) in the Gulf of Mexico at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Sept.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Caption The MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible picture of Hurricane Lee on Sept. 24 as it continued to move through the ...

Humans have strived for a cartographic representation of their world for thousands of years. Mapping the Earth was one of the motivations of the early explorers, and armies of surveyors have ...