Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Imagine trying to spot an object just 30 centimeters wide from hundreds of kilometers above Earth. Years ago, I remember when “satellite view” meant blurry green blobs on a screen. Now, we can see ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...

Russia has restored its capability for high-resolution Earth mapping with the recent launch of the new Resurs-P observation satellite. The 6,570-kg (14,480-lb.) spacecraft was orbited by Russia’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

Reporters can now access and download satellite images good enough to see individual buildings at almost every location on Earth — in minutes, with no special skills, and entirely for free. Of course, ...

Using muon tomography, Ideon remotely mapped the full cave back at New Afton Mine to 25 m or less spatial resolution at a depth of approximately 800 m, using no additional drilling to image 830 ...