The photobomber is a satellite — specifically, one of SpaceX 's Starlink internet satellites, which Maxar identified as ...

The second stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket captured an amazing view of Earth during the launch of the Intelsat 40e ...

New European weather satellite MetOp-SG-A1 sends early data from orbit, promising better forecasts and climate insights for the next 20 years.

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite has launched from ...

Most people take the seasons for granted, but by using old satellite data, scientists have found that Earth's seasons might not be as dependable as we thought.

The fires from a NASA Landsat. Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Images taken by a NASA satellite this week reveal the worrying ...

"It would be a record for retrieving an exposed spacecraft." Decades ago during the heady space race rivalry between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the entire world experienced the ...

The map was made as part of a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ...

After 20 years, being able to look at any corner of the planet in Google Earth doesn't seem that impressive, but it was a revolution in 2005. Google Earth has gone through a lot of changes in that ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

Like Google Maps, Google Earth is marking its 20th birthday this year. Other first-party milestones (10 years) in 2025 include Google Photos, Fi Wireless, and YouTube Music. Google Earth was the ...