From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

A satellite called Sentinel-1D lifted off on November 4, 2025, riding an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana. Within two days ...

BlackSky is a space company focused on capturing high-resolution images of the Earth's surface and delivering crucial ...

Will the next great cosmic discovery be erased by a broadband satellite?” A new NASA led study warns that the accelerating ...

When a powerful earthquake shook the far eastern edge of Russia in late July, it set off more than a huge movement of the ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Satellites orbiting Earth have dozens of jobs. Some take pictures of space, others are aimed at the big blue planet and take ...

A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

NASA satellite imagery has revealed the dramatic scale of the wildfires scorching parts of southwestern New Mexico, as two major fires—the Buck and Trout—continue to threaten homes, infrastructure and ...

Explorer 6, launched August 7, 1959, from Cape Canaveral, had a primary mission to investigate Earth's magnetic fields, radiation, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, and micrometeorites. The satellite ...

The satellite image does appear on Google Earth, but it shows animals gathered around a watering hole, not human bodies. While this specific photo was miscaptioned, verified satellite imagery has ...