Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

Maxar is developing 3D mapping technology that allows precise navigation by matching sensor data to an exact 3D map of the entire planet Earth.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

At COP16, mapping, monitoring and reporting on ecosystems was a focal point for governments and businesses. How will a new ...

This phenomenon, called gravitational lensing, occurs only when galaxies line up precisely from our perspective. As seen from Earth, the massive gravitational lens creates multiple images of six of ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links now enable the transmission of images, videos, and data from space probes to Earth using light. However, for these signals to travel the entire ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

The images show a devastating transformation of eastern Spain, where at least 205 people have been killed by flash floods.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his long-exposure photographs from the International Space Station (ISS), recently ...

Close-up image of the ghost forest along the coastline of North Carolina's Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula. These are a result of ...

The Perseverance rover spotted a quick glimpse of a cosmic “googly eye” on Mars during a recent solar eclipse.As Phobos, one ...