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The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.
Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...
NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...
The thousands of satellites operated by companies from Starlink to Telesat will eventually burn up in the atmosphere when ...
NASA's EZIE mission, launched in March 2025, is already returning useful data from orbit. It's the first mission to observe auroral electrojets near Earth’s poles closely.
New satellite images show what could be North Korea’s biggest warship ever – possibly more than double the size of anything in leader Kim Jong Un’s naval fleet. Images taken by independent ...
The Open Data Cube Core provides an integrated gridded data analysis environment for decades of analysis ready earth observation satellite and related data from multiple satellite and other ...
A solar superstorm, strong enough to cause an 'internet apocalypse', knock out satellites and cripple clean water supplies could hit Earth 'at any moment', experts have warned.
Developed by scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), this prototype satellite was built in only three years and at a fraction of the cost of traditional Earth observation missions ...
Launched in March 1958 and named Vanguard-1, it was the first satellite powered by solar electric power. While many of its contemporaries have long since succumbed to the Earth’s fiery ...
Dubbed GRUS-3, the platform will capture images of the Earth’s surface at the same location and nearly the same time every day for locations north of 25 degrees latitude Operating in sun-synchronous ...
The newly processed image, known as the Herschel-SPIRE Dark Field, is touted as the deepest far-infrared view ever achieved. It was created by stacking 141 separate images gathered by the Herschel ...