The data came from a NASA sensor onboard its Terra and Aqua satellites called MODIS. Rashid said “each pixel in [its images] represents an area of 1 sq. km.” He continued: “We analysed ...

Forest fires are spreading across central India and the Himalayan states amid a severe heatwave. With over 169 large forest ...

As the youngest of NASA’s ocean color instruments, MODIS-Aqua is likely to be the sensor of choice for 2010 and beyond. Dead zones are a growing problem around the world. Over the last 40 years, the ...

"We could determine the mass of the Himalayas using atoms," Jason Hyon, chief technologist for Earth Science at NASA's Jet ...

Learn how NASA, private companies and academic institutions are working to develop and deploy the first space-based quantum ...

This mission will pave the way for groundbreaking observations of everything from petroleum reserves to global supplies of ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with its core priorities, but has provided few details about what is being cut.

Those are words that NASA has been resisting for months. It made for an awkward situation in a post-splashdown press conference, when NASA administrators insisted they could have brought Butch ...

NASA has called off a planned cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) due to a damaged spacecraft. The spacecraft is a robotic Cygnus freighter, built by the Virginia-based company ...

Two NASA astronauts have splashed down off the coast of Florida after spending more than nine months stuck in space. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams waved as they left their capsule - nearly an ...

The capsule carried four astronauts, including NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who spent an unplanned 280 days on the International Space Station after experiencing issues with the Boeing ...