The World Meteorological Organization has provided satellite data receiving and processing systems to nine countries in East Asia and the Western Pacific region in cooperation with the Japan ...

Using the power of Japan's K computer, scientists have shown that incorporating satellite data at frequent intervals -- 10 minutes in the case of this study -- into weather prediction models can ...

Japan has launched the Himawari 9 weather satellite on Wednesday afternoon local time, with the aid of its H-IIA rocket. Liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Centre, in Japan’s Osumi Islands, was on ...

Images from the Himawari Satellite, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, gave all of us a rare view of the effects of a solar eclipse as seen from space. The National Weather Service Boise ...

It's a good week to start a job if you're a weather satellite. With three typhoons churning in the western Pacific, there's no shortage of interesting things to look at and analyze. So it's safe to ...

Himawari-8 satellite image shows a low-pressure area east of the Philippine area of responsibility at 6:10 a.m. on Tuesday, 2 ...

WASHINGTON — A Japanese H-2A rocket launched the Himawari-9 geostationary weather satellite Wednesday (Nov. 2), marking the workhorse rocket's second and final launch of 2016. Mitsubishi Heavy ...

Wow. That’s Earth, as seen on Wednesday from Japan’s glorious new weather satellite, the Himawari-8. You owe it to yourself to click and explore the above image, because wow. The Himawari-8, hovering ...

The entire Oregon coast, along with the rest of the West Coast, was under a tsunami advisory Saturday after an undersea volcano erupted near the Pacific nation of Tonga. In Hawaii, the Pacific Tsunami ...