One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...

The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...

“Our idea was to use a very special type of radar to map the world’s forests from space. The goal was to understand how ...

At the risk of understating the case, Europe has been shaken by recent geopolitical events. ‘Great power politics’ is back, ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was ...

The fish would grow in tanks filled with water extracted from ice found at the Moon’s poles, regions permanently shielded ...

ESA launches Biomass satellite with a massive radar umbrella to revolutionize forest carbon tracking from space. Its usefulness goes beyond that.

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a first-of-a-kind satellite on Tuesday that will count the carbon in Earth’s rainforests. Scientists hope to better understand the importance of ...

European Space Agency's groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The ...

Scientists say the radar will paint the first detailed global map of forests’ biomass, which is crucial for sucking up carbon ...