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A beautiful sunset over the Atlantic off the Florida coast, or an orangey glow in the Texas sky at dusk may be caused by dust from West Africa, according to researchers who are looking at the paths of particulate matter in the skies over the Sahara desert and the semi-arid Sahel.

Co-authored by Texas A&M scientists, new research shows how levels of black carbon and dust are related to climate and monsoons.

There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence is embedded in our everyday lives.

Using a concept adapted from the mathematics and biology communities, a scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center developed a method to directly measure snow depth using lidar measurements from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2).

Although invisible to us, every teaspoon of seawater contains more than a million marine bacteria.