The NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite has sent back ultra-detailed images of Maine and North Dakota that are clear enough to ...

NASA has released the first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite showing the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland ...

A first-of-its-kind satellite has launched to track nearly imperceptible changes on Earth’s surface, an effort that could aid with responses to natural disasters. Called the NASA-ISRO Synthetic ...

Radar has come a long way from its humble origins about a century ago, and today it’s become extremely advanced with numerous applications. Radar is actually an acronym that stands for Radio Detection ...

In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding bullet 1,000 miles above Earth. And a radome Buckminster Fuller had helped ...

When meteorologists are looking for a potential tornado within a storm, they’ll change the radar view to analyze the velocity field, which shows winds as detected by the radar beam. And when they do ...

Panel by panel, a maintenance team has been racing against afternoon thunderstorms this week to replace the protective dome housing the National Weather Service radar dish atop a mountain next to ...

Radar is one of the most useful tools for scanning our skies above. Sometimes, though, things that normally slide under the radar show up in full view on cold mornings. Did you know it’s possible for ...