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Twenty percent workforce reduction and defunded labs have rattled the industry

Federal science funding affects Maine in concrete ways.

The markup meeting, to discuss the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2026 and the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, lasted less than 20 minutes.

The SPC has introduced changes to their severe weather outlook, introducing new intensity levels to highlight specific threats for storms.

From an injured skier in the Rockies to a disabled catamaran in the Atlantic Ocean, NOAA’s satellites were pivotal in helping rescue 300 people from life-threatening situations in the U.S. and its surrounding waters in 2025.

A look at how the GOES satellite program enhances forecasters abilities to track weather.

NOAA takes FOX Weather's Brandy Campbell on a tour to see not only the P3 Hurricane Hunting Plane, but the tools that go where it’s unsafe for people to get all the important details needed for tracking and forecasting storms.

The bipartisan legislation is up for committee markup next week.

An industry group told federal officials that losing the National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken insurance “stability and affordability.”

Leaders warn NCAR restructuring could undermine US atmospheric science, as supercomputing transfer raises further fears.

This legislation leverages DOE’s high-performance computing capabilities to strengthen timely, accurate weather forecasting during extreme weather events, saving lives and property.

Bone-dry weather and gusty winds are complicating efforts to contain a massive wildfire burning across Oklahoma's panhandle, with little relief expected heading into Thursday as flames spread into neighboring Kansas.

It may surprise you to learn that broadcast meteorologists don’t issues watches and warnings, National Weather Service meteorologists do.

The Pacific Coast is bracing for a series of intense weather systems this week, with meteorologists predicting heavy rainfall and a significant risk of flooding as the storms move toward the interior.

The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”

NSF announced on Thursday that management and operations of the supercomputing center will transition to a third-party operator.

Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.

It affects climate-related efforts and key programs that study the Earth and other planets in the universe.

Some federal contractors are feeling the squeeze after the president slashed support for climate programs and other research efforts.

The first U.S. drought monitor of February was released Thursday, showing dismal results for the Carolinas.

One of the world’s leading climate research institutions – the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR – has been headquartered in Boulder since the 1950s.

Leveraging the power of two of the nation’s leading supercomputers, a team of scientists at Texas A&M University and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has created an unprecedented set of high-resolution Earth system simulations.

Mississippi plays key role as NASA's Artemis II mission nears launch.

After facing monumental challenges in 2025, NASA and the space science community have now landed in 2026 with a Senate-confirmed Administrator, a full budget, and a full calendar of events.

Two representatives from NASA have joined the team of U.S. Drought Monitor authors. The monitor is hosted by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and produced through a partnership between the drought center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and now NASA.

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) opened its doors in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2012. Since then, more than 4,000 users from more than 575 universities and other institutions across the nation and overseas have used its advanced computing and data storage resources for research in the Earth system sciences.

From Huntsville to Houston, the space industry in the US is rooted in the South. And as NASA works towards returning to the moon with the Artemis program, our space history is inspiring new generations of Americans. But in North Carolina, two important sites from the Space Race of the 1960s remain relatively unknown.

The NOAA strategy being developed will give commercial data providers a longer-term view of NOAA’s needs than the current program, which relies primarily on five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts.

In a letter published Jan. 23, the National Science Foundation asks for ideas to redistribute NCAR’s core functions — such as weather modeling and predicting electromagnetic solar storms — into different institutions.

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.