BOULDER —- People planning ball games, picnics, and other outdoor events may soon have more precise short-term forecasts of rainfall, thanks to an observing strategy now being tested by the National ...

Downbursts, a specific type of strong, potentially damaging winds from thunderstorms, continue to be a challenge for forecasters, especially when storms are disorganized and short-lived. Common during ...

Bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging represents a significant advance in remote sensing by utilising spatially separated transmitter and receiver platforms. This configuration provides ...

Clouds have for decades been a bugbear for remote sensing of land surface temperature—one of the most important earth system metrics, used in everything from tracking climate change to predicting ...

NASA scientists have observed a rare thermonuclear explosion on a neutron star that brightened it for so long that they could detect its motion as it moved towards and away from us on its orbit around ...

In the 53 years since Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity, it has withstood determined attacks and ingenious experiments by other scientists anxious to test its validity.