Spotting Objects From Space Is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder
A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters. ..
A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters. ..
Observations of faraway worlds have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of our solar system. ..
Spraying aerosols and sucking carbon out of the air would bring down temperatures, yes. But the unintended consequences of geoengineering could be enormous. ..
Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit. ..
Early theories suggested an underwater landslide caused a catastrophic mix of magma and seawater. Recent evidence reveals an explosion unlike anything ..
A long-term study of a marsh was meant to ask whether rising levels of CO2 could help wetlands thrive despite rising seas. The plants aren’t keeping ..
Tiny wobbles in Earth’s gravitational field could help detect big tremors faster, but they’re hard to tease out from the planet’s seismic noise. ..
Scientists have finally found Antarctica’s missing groundwater, which will help them predict ice flows on the continent. ..
This August, following tests at the launch site, the probe will voyage to the middle of the solar system to do the first detailed study of a mostly metal ..
More than half of the sea now logs temperatures once considered extreme, threatening countless species, livelihoods, and the air we breathe. ..