NASA is partnering with the European Space Agency on one and with the Indian Space Research Organization on the other. NASA has sent two new satellites into space over the past six months to monitor ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning a once theoretical hazard into something scientists can now see and ...

The most recent breakthrough in human understanding of extreme weather events happened by accident. Tsunami physics has always been difficult to study, both because of their infrequency and the ...

Glaciologist Helen Fricker will use a cutting-edge Lidar imaging system to study some of the world’s most isolated spots.

For the first time in 180 years, descendants of the extinct Floreana giant tortoise are reclaiming their ancestral homeland. But scientists required a cutting-edge tool to identify the ideal location ...

A new NASA-led study shows that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from some orbiting telescopes and space observatories. “The urgency starts in the ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA -SpaceX on November 17 launched NASA’s ‘Sentinel-6B’ satellite aimed at monitoring sea level change, the US space agency said. ‘Sentinel-6B’ is an Earth-observing satellite jointly ...

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite is one of two next generation satellites selected by NASA to help better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events ...

The U.S. and China usually operate on two different wavelengths, but a recent occurrence in the world of space traffic control involved both countries working in unison, which turned more than a few ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo scientists Sophie Nowicki and Beata Csatho are part of an international team chosen for a NASA satellite mission designed to improve predictions of environmental ...

NASA is looking for ways to keep three aging Earth observation satellites in operation as their power supplies dwindle. Terra, Aqua and Aura were launched between 1999 and 2004. They have run out of ...