On April 29, a rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Aboard it was a satellite designed to ...

Biomass, a European Space Agency satellite, has been orbiting Earth for just over five months collecting data on how much the ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation and laying underwater communications cables. “Seafloor mapping is key in both established ...

Biomass will monitor the Earth's tropical forests over the next five years. ESA / ATG medialab under CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO After more than ten years of development, the European Space Agency (ESA) is ...

NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are about to launch a groundbreaking satellite that can monitor Earth’s surface with incredible accuracy. This new satellite, named NISAR (short ...

Using data from NASA’s PACE ocean satellite, scientists are mapping plant productivity worldwide, offering new insights into ecosystem health ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using ...

July 28 (UPI) --NASA and India plan to deploy a satellite that will map the Earth down to a centimeter after a launch on Wednesday from the Asian nation's southeastern coast. The rocket launch by the ...

When imagery from the Worldview Legion satellites revealed fabric over a large object near a dry dock in North Korea in September, satellite operator Maxar Intelligence knew they needed help. They ...

Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground shift in central Myanmar following the devastating earthquakes that ravaged the area in March. Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground ...

While recording an image of Dingxin Airbase in China, Maxar Intelligence catches the Starlink satellite flying several ...