An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

The NISAR mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO.) The satellite, which launched July 30 from India, is designed to observe and map Earth in detail to ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta – a major rice-producing region in southwest Vietnam. In Vietnam, rice has been a strategic crop for national food security.

Satellite-based imagery of Earth has just entered a new frontier, thanks to the recently-launched NISAR satellite. Here's ...

While in many ways different from Earth, Venus has some geological similarities to our own planet. And now, scientists have discovered evidence of volcanic activity on Venus. In Greek and Roman ...

Saturn’s moon Titan shows a sharp contrast between its smooth and rough edges in a new false-color radar image. Titan’s surface lies beneath a thick coat of hazy clouds, but Cassini’s radar instrument ...

As lidar technology becomes the industry standard in powering autonomous vehicles, a young startup called Altos Radar is stepping up to challenge the light-based remote sensing technology with 4D ...

Physicists are exploring a quantum-mechanical approach to making smaller radio wave detectors. Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of ...

Satellite images released in the aftermath of a strike in Ukraine's occupied Luhansk region suggest that Kyiv's forces targeted a Russian long-range radar system. The photos, dated May 10 and 28, are ...

Researchers scouring decades-old spacecraft data have found clear signs of recent volcanic activity on Venus. The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal not only that the planet's surface ...