Hurricane season has a new contender, and it's swirling above the poles. Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm, eye-like center. But ...

The Constant Watchers High above Earth's surface, GOES-18 and GOES-19 are the current pair of operational geostationary ...

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As he posted the awe-inspiring shots earlier in the week, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency wrote that staring down "the gaping eye of a category 4 hurricane" is "chilling, even from space.

Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the U.S. East Coast and has turned into a frightening storm, according to an astronaut on the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Mike Fossum said that ...

As Hurricane Erin hovered over the Atlantic Ocean, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was spotted from above by a camera on the International Space Station. The SpaceTV-1 camera ...

A rare hurricane that raged high above Earth's North Pole in 2014 packed a surprising punch, and may be even stranger than scientists first thought. The phenomenon, called a "space hurricane," ...

A new video from the National Weather service shows Hurricane Florence from space over the course of three weeks. The animation shows the massive storm's life-span from its beginnings as a tropical ...

First introduced in 1975, geostationary satellites have become a standard instrument for weather forecasting, especially during hurricane season. NOAA's National Hurricane Center will turn to its ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim captured dramatic views of a hurricane from the International Space Station using a Nikon Z9 camera. Around the same time, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite also recorded stunning ...

Astronaut Reid Wiseman is giving updates on Hurricane Arthur that few humans get to witness: what it looks like from above. "Just flew over TS #Arthur" he tweeted Wednesday morning, when it was still ...