The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race." ...
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.
Polar orbiting satellites have tracked the world’s largest iceberg since it broke free in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in early ...
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...
A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...
The innovative satellite is providing researchers with unparalleled data on ocean phenomena, particularly algae blooms.
"It’s been a warm winter in Baikal, as observed from space," Roscosmos said in comments to its posted pictures ...
Satellites orbiting the Earth have captured the effects of a "polar vortex" on camera, as swathes of the U.S. are gripped by ...
To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is ... why Pluto shares an orbit with a satellite about half its size, and ...
California's ongoing wildfire crisis has caused catastrophic destruction in Los Angeles County, as newly released satellite images from Maxar Technologies reveal the scale of the devastation ...
With Los Angeles in the grips of several brutal wildfires which have decimated thousands of buildings and killed five people, a NASA satellite ... NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang ...
They expressed particular concerns about future images from highly ... also entails researching how low-Earth orbit satellites affect astronomy and what satellite operator companies can do to ...