Landsat images acquired in 1992 and 2012 (top and bottom, respectively) show the transformation of China’s Binhai New Area from salt farms, reed marshes and wasteland to one of China’s key economic ...

As a former NASA Earth scientist, I keep a close eye on space-related activities of all types. In recent months, there has been quite the media buzz about space tourists being lofted into space (or ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com NASA's latest Earth-observation satellite blasted off Monday, continuing a storied four-decade effort to track environmental ...

Communities worldwide rely on reservoirs for drinking water, hydroelectric power, irrigation, and more. These critical ...

Agriculture places a heavy demand on declining water supplies. Yet each year, over-irrigation wastes huge amounts of water. Farmers in Bangladesh — like so many places around the world — face ...

NASA transferred ownership and operational control on Thursday of the Landsat 9 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Landsat 9 is the most recent ...

The California weather cleared shortly before lift-off to enable everyone to see Landsat-9's Atlas rocket leave the pad What is arguably the world's most important satellite has launched to orbit from ...