In the thick of the season, some of the nation’s top hurricane scientists are thousands of miles from the ocean.

Your gift to the Verner E. Suomi Scholarship Award supports promising first-year college students as they begin their academic careers. Like Dr. Suomi, you can help introduce students to the thrill of...

Your gift to the Verner E. Suomi Scholarship Award supports promising first-year college students as they begin their academic careers. Like Dr. Suomi, you can help introduce students to the thrill of...

November 10, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most-remembered weather-related disasters of all time: the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. This ship was an ore freighter that sailed the G...

Loading map … To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the GOES-A launch (GOES-A became GOES-1 on reaching geostationary orbit), this blog post contains one or two satellite animations (or images) for eac...

Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.

The twin cube satellites will operate through at least September 2026, expanding focus from the poles to the whole planet to improve modelling and weather forecasts.

On August 20, 1965, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Board of Regents officially recognized the establishment of the Space Science and Engineering Center, a new research center dedicated to the eme...