For the first time in 180 years, descendants of the extinct Floreana giant tortoise are reclaiming their ancestral homeland. But scientists required a cutting-edge tool to identify the ideal location ...

For the first time in nearly 150 years, giant tortoises are back on Galapagos' Floreana Island, guided home by NASA data.

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) team was one of two teams selected out of four finalists for NASA’s Earth System Explorers (ESE) program, which conducts Earth science missions based on key ...

NASA is partnering with the European Space Agency on one and with the Indian Space Research Organization on the other. NASA has sent two new satellites into space over the past six months to monitor ...

NASA’s PACE satellite now provides nitrogen dioxide measurements, enabling finer-scale pollution tracking using OCI data trained with Sentinel-5P TROPOMI observations.

The most recent breakthrough in human understanding of extreme weather events happened by accident. Tsunami physics has always been difficult to study, both because of their infrequency and the ...

Glaciologist Helen Fricker will use a cutting-edge Lidar imaging system to study some of the world’s most isolated spots.

Scientists and researchers around the globe are constantly finding ways to analyze the changes from climate change. In a few ...

NASA has selected UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to lead the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite mission, which will monitor land, vegetation, ice sheets and coastal ...

A NASA satellite used to detect bushfires in real time across two thirds of Australia is "dying" and it could be months ...