Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained ...

Using satellite data and ice-flow modelling, scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of Antarctica’s hidden terrain, revealing tens of thousands of hills and features that could influence ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography of Antarctica can be inverted from satellite observations of the ice surface ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

The latest panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover turns Mount Sharp from a distant backdrop into an overwhelming, ...

NASA's SPHEREx Observatory has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, as seen here in this image released on Dec. 18, 2025. This image features a selection of colors emitted primarily by stars ...

It took the most recent telescope launched by American space agency NASA just six months to put together a full infrared map of the entire sky – actually, not just a single map, but 102 of them, each ...

Less than a year into its mission, NASA’s SPHEREx has already completed its first full survey of the sky, producing a near-infrared map that captures the entire cosmos in a staggering 102 colors.