A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective ... Every week, we take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it.

The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Rober’s offer to snap anyone’s selfie with the planet ...

POES satellites orbit the earth 14 times each day at an altitude of approximately 520 miles (870 km). As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth.

The world's first wooden satellite was launched into space on Tuesday ... we will be able to build houses, live and work in space forever," said Takao Doi, an astronaut who studies human space ...

Artwork: GHGSat is aiming for a constellation of greenhouse-gas monitors in the sky There is a powerful new satellite in the ... "There's world-class capability in what we do in the UK," Dr ...

Indian space agency ISRO today successfully launched the European Space Agency's PROBA-3 satellite. The launch was on board ...

A European satellite has fallen to Earth after 30 years of work in space. The spacecraft, called ERS-2, entered the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday 21 February between Alaska and Hawaii.

A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the afterlife in an orbital graveyard, the communications satellite is now ...

The world's first ... that this is not a satellite completely made of wood... but the basic premise behind the idea is really interesting. "From a sustainability point of view, wood is a material ...