Satellites
OneWeb Wins FCC Approval to Launch a Fleet of Internet-Beaming Satellites
The company, backed by Richard Branson, wants to blanket the Earth in 720 satellites offering fiber-quality internet speeds for rural areas.
Here’s How California’s Bounce Back From Drought Looked From Space
Landsat satellites and airborne observatories monitored the state’s driest period in recorded history.
China’s Quantum Satellite Sent Entangled Photons to Earth for the First Time
We could be just five years away from a space-based quantum communication network.
Satellite Images Revealed the Secret Meaning of These Ancient Desert Spirals
The Nazca lines are world famous geoglyphs, and their nearby spiral structure help explain why they were built.
Satellite Images Revealed the Secret Meaning of These Ancient Desert Spirals
The Nazca lines are world famous geoglyphs, and their nearby spiral structure help explain why they were built.
We’re Fighting Famine in South Sudan With Images From Outer Space
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, DigitalGlobe, and thousands of online volunteers partner up to map out displacement in crisis-stricken regions.
These Are The Best Satellite Images of Earth's Weather Taken So Far
The new images from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite show why Earth science is so vital at a time when the Trump Administration has called it into question.
SpaceX Revealed the Cause of Its Rocket Explosion, And When It’s Launching Again
Buckles in Falcon 9 helium tank likely cause of September catastrophe.
Earth's Core Is Squirting a 'Jet Stream' of Liquid Metal Under the Surface
Scientists found it by taking a satellite “x-ray” of the globe.
This NASA Simulation Highlights Why Climate Change Research Is Essential
It’s like a snowglobe, but with harmful greenhouse gas emissions in place of the snowflakes.
A Piece of Space Junk Has The Best, Most Existential Twitter Account
An art project imagines what a piece of space junk would say if it could talk back to Earth, and to other decommissioned satellites in orbit.