You might not know where to find elevation measurements on Google Maps because it's well-hidden. Whether hiking or enjoying a ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Almost as if taking a page out of George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, a startup called Albedo is building a satellite that can zoom in on ... set to hover over the Earth's surface at a ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy ...

This is the map for US Satellite. A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. These meteorological satellites, however ...

In recent years, companies such as Starlink have started launching satellite constellations that cover a large area of the planet’s surface and orbit slightly closer to the Earth, allowing for ...

The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times that we have seen the Earth acquire a ...

A novel UK satellite has returned its first pictures of heat variations across the surface of the Earth. HotSat-1 carries ... HotSat-1's heat maps - still imagery and short videos - should have ...

The Earth has got itself a new moon. The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times ...

Artwork: Aeolus comfortably exceeded its minimum design life in space of three years Final commands were sent to Europe's Aeolus satellite ... which was designed to map Earth's winds, re-entered ...