Agriculture places a heavy demand on declining water supplies. Yet each year, over-irrigation wastes huge amounts of water. Farmers in Bangladesh — like so many places around the world — face ...

When NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) launches on Monday, it will deliver to orbit the latest and most capable Earth-observing satellite in a four-decade long project to study the surface ...

United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday, September 27. The rocket will carry NASA's Landsat 9 satellite into orbit. The Landsat ...

In May, about 30 miles from the ominously named town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, a conflagration began. Known as the Black Fire, it soon blew up, growing explosively and consuming huge ...

Fifty years ago, humanity gained a powerful new tool to study our home planet. That day, July 23, 1972, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey ...

This Landsat image was one of the Top Five 'Earth as Art' winners of a public selection. It shows the Mississippi River on the border between Arkansas and Mississippi surrounded by towns and fields.

Landsat 5 has secured a new world record title for being the longest-operating Earth observation satellite after almost three decades in orbit. Guinness World Records sent an email confirmation to ...

Today the U.S. Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months, bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in history. By any ...

At the beginning of 2021, President Joe Biden exclaimed that “science is back” as we continued our efforts to address the COVID emergency. That phrase continues to ring true across the federal ...