SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external organizations to support instruments ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was recently knocked offline after an unexpected command error caused the ...

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...

Rivers leave measurable height signatures that satellites can track, helping scientists detect erosion and flood risks sooner ...

A new NASA Earth-observing satellite featured Maine’s coast in its first radar image. The satellite, which was launched July 30, took the image of Maine on Aug. 21. It shows Mount Desert Island, an ...

NASA's Earth-observing satellites captured 12 significant events in 2025, revealing the planet's dynamic systems, from the Palisades fire burn scar in Los Angeles to the aftermath of a glacier ...

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 last time someone photographed the exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere separating it from outer space, was in the 1970s from the surface of the Moon. This is a problem for two ...

A series of intense winter storms fuelled by a distorted polar vortex has buried Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula under ...

The NISAR mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO.) The satellite, which launched July 30 from India, is designed to observe and map Earth in detail to ...