NASA This image shows wild and prescribed fires burning in the southeastern United States in February 2017. Prescribed fires are set deliberately by wildland fire management agencies to remove ...

On June 18, 2012 the light brown colored smoke and the heat signatures from the High Park Fire in Colorado were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 560 wildfires that have scorched California this week have created a 1,214-mile smoke plume visible from space, new NASA imagery shows. The space agency on Thursday released ...

The Earth Fire Alliance, a global nonprofit, has partnered with Muon Space and Google to launch FireSat — the world’s first fleet of more than 50 satellites designed to scan the entire planet in near ...

Each year, SpaceNews selects the people, programs and technologies that have most influenced the direction of the space industry in the past year. Started in 2017, our annual celebration recognizes ...