The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Neil Jacobs to lead NOAA as that agency’s top satellite official remains on administrative leave.

The distant Kamchatka tsunami sent a mere ripple to the Olympic Peninsula, yet served as a reminder of why we build tsunami ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the weather service’s parent agency, has predicted between 13 and 19 ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii, where waves set off by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia’s remote Far East ...

A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The ...

Early Wednesday morning, a powerful earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, struck off the coast of the Kamchatka ...

The SSMIS instruments are part of three weather satellites that are in low-Earth orbit and are maintained by NOAA in ...

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to ...

Some of the rainiest places on Earth could see their annual precipitation nearly halved if climate change continues to alter ...

Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as ...

Two high-ranking officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were placed on leave this week, including ...