New images from a recently launched radar satellite show the promise of providing unprecedented views inside storms all around the globe. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

The first images from NASA’s new CloudSat satellite are already revealing never-before-seen 3-D details about clouds. Mission managers tested the flight and ground system performance of the ...

NASA's CloudSat Satellite passed over Super Typhoon Atsani as it moved through the western North Pacific Ocean. CloudSat looked at the super typhoon from the side, revealing heavy rainfall in a ...

Gaze up at a cloud-filled sky, and you may spot the white, fluffy shape of a dragon, fish or elephant. Looking at the same sky, Graeme Stephens sees a different vision -- a possible future for Earth's ...

NASA's CloudSat passed over Tropical Storm Isaias as it was strengthening back into a hurricane on Aug. 3, and before it made landfall in North Carolina. CloudSat revealed areas of heavy rain and ice ...

When Dolphin was a typhoon on May 16, NASA’s CloudSat satellite completed a stunning eye overpass of Typhoon Dolphin in the West Pacific at 0412 UTC (12:12 a.m. EDT). By May 22, Dolphin’s remnants ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. today celebrates the eighth anniversary of on-orbit operations for the CloudSat and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) ...

The NASA mission provided data on cloud profiles and physical properties to enhance weather prediction models "The deorbiting of CloudSat brings an end to a long and valuable mission that helped the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a spacecraft in orbit around earth. NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end ...

A NASA satellite took a sideways look at a slice of tropical depression Lana in the Central Pacific. A NASA satellite took a sideways look at a slice of tropical depression Lana in the Central Pacific ...