Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how ...

"This breakthrough enables scientists to do something that was impossible until now," according to the system's creators.

Forests play a central role in the global carbon cycle as trees store carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves.

The images captured by the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite show a thick cloud of smoke stretching hundreds of miles northeast, creating hazy ...

This video shows the launch of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) NISAR satellite. It launched from the ...

The Space Force has an array of sensors scattered around the world to detect and track satellites and space debris. The 18th ...

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country's first homegrown launch ...

AI is used to process satellite imagery to monitor climate change, but scientists warn that analysis is still falling behind ...

Marine heat waves in 2023 reached record extremes, with some events expected only once every 276 years, raising concerns ...

A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing ...

Six months ago, the M23 rebel group seized Goma, one of the largest cities in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the time since, local activists and satellite images compiled by Mongabay ...

A company is sending satellites into space to detect wildfire with unprecedented precision. As the Fish Creek Fire burned ...