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

China is increasing efforts to counter Elon Musk’s Starlink, the world’s largest satellite internet network. From attack satellites and lasers to building its own mega-constellation, Beijing sees ...

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 ...

The $1.3 billion satellite was launched by Isro from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Thursday.

This video shows the launch of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) NISAR satellite. It launched from the southeast Indian coast on Wednesday 30 July 2025. After the successful ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Earth-observation startup Albedo won a National Reconnaissance Office Stage 2 contract, clearing the way for the intelligence agency to begin purchasing imagery.

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 ...

Riding a wave of surging demand for low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications, Universal Microwave Technology (UMT) ...

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 ...