When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA ... measurements day and night and see through clouds. The team's work led to the Magellan mission ...
Set to launch within a few months, NISAR will use a technique called synthetic aperture radar to produce incredibly detailed maps of surface change on our planet.
NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...
These aren’t the big puffy mounds of cotton candy like you might find on Earth. Mars clouds have wispy features, more like a gauzy veil than a fluffy sheep. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has ...
NASA and the Europeans Space Agency are among the world's space agencies developing methods of protecting Earth from inbound threats. The infinite cosmos is a dangerous place brimming with ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...
Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into ... The four satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission recently measured a burst of chorus waves coming from a spot about 102,526 ...