Developed at NASA JPL, the science instrument gives researchers a more detailed picture of high-temperature surfaces, such as land scorched by wildfire, than previous infrared instruments.

With Los Angeles in the grips of several brutal wildfires which have decimated thousands of buildings and killed five people, a NASA satellite has snapped images of the huge volumes of smoke ...

On Tuesday, NASA researchers ... crews fight fires from the air both day and night, sending all types of aircraft in the sky 24/7. Right now, pilots can't fly at night or in heavy smoke, which ...

who is a scientist at the University of Maryland-College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “They may last only a few weeks.” California officials release new fire hazard map ...

In a secluded corner of California, NASA is trialling its portable aircraft management system designed to combat wildfires. Today, their aim is to ensure drones and remotely piloted helicopters ...

For Tuesday's forecast, wildfire smoke was worsening the air quality in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina. Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected in Texas and California ...

As the Amazon fire ... smoke from the burning Amazon rainforest more than 1,700 miles away. The Amazon has been burning for three weeks, at rates unprecedented for Brazil. Satellite images from ...

The January wildfires in California devastated local habitats and communities. In an effort to better understand wildfire behavior, NASA scientists and engineers tried to learn from the events by ...