A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

A satellite with a 40-foot extendable antenna has launched into space with a giant mission: to map all of the world’s forests — ecosystems that are crucial for absorbing carbon and slowing ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

The Biomass satellite, from the European Space Agency, will "weigh" the Earth's forests, revealing how much planet-warming carbon is being stored within trees and therefore kept out of the atmosphere.

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

Biomass satellite is already showing us Earth in a whole new light. On June 23 the ESA released the mission’s first images, which showcase its unique capability to peer through dense vegetation to ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Google Earth, you can now go back in time when scrolling with a handy 'Historical Imagery' button on the top left. Depending on how far back the technology goes, ...

ESA’s Biomass satellite reveals hidden carbon, forests, and terrain using advanced radar that sees through trees, sand, and ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

As fascinating as bizarre signals from other planets can be—teaching us about earthquakes on Mars or auroras in the skies of Jupiter —sometimes even weirder signals come from weather extremes ...

This ought to cause a wave of panic: Satellite footage has revealed the frightening source vibrations that rocked the world for nine days.