In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth's rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over ...

NASA's upcoming EDGE satellite mission, led by UC San Diego, uses lasers to deliver unprecedented 3D mapping of Earth.

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 ...

A satellite built to measure Earth’s water has started answering a different kind of question. “What’s the shape of water?” Specifically, “How is water reshaping the ground beneath it?” NASA launched ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A wall of water taller than most skyscrapers roared through a remote Greenland fjord, yet the strangest part of the story unfolded after the splash. A NASA satellite watched the tsunami’s energy get ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...