As we move into the new year, it’s easy to see that things changed for a lot of people in 2020. On this day last year, NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer captured images of thick, ...

The amount of greenhouse gases released into the air by the fires was also likely higher than previously measured. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...

In this animation a radar pulse bounces between the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite and the sea surface, collecting data on the height of the ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A satellite ...

It has sometimes been said that we know less about our ocean’s depths than we know about the moon. Now, a new study puts a twist on that old (and, some say, outdated) analogy, suggesting we know ...

Google could soon add satellite connectivity features to Maps. Google Maps beta v11.125 has strings of code suggesting you’ll be able to update you location via satellite every 15 minutes, five times ...