The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of forests across multiple continents ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

After unleashing dozens of destructive tornadoes, a slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the U.S. Midwest and ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

For centuries, sailors have told tales of milky seas – huge swaths of ocean glowing on dark nights, seen in blue in this false–color satellite image. Steven D. Miller/NOAA ...

As terrestrial animals, many people don’t think of the sky as a significant ecosystem. For birds, bats and some insects, this ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope took its ...