New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

A new generation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites could transform how we observe our planet. This innovative constellation consists of nearly 900 satellites, organized in teams, capable ...

The map above shows planet Earth’s reflectivity, or albedo, as the proportion of the sun’s energy that’s bounced back to space. Ice-covered regions are the most reflective, reflecting nearly ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it ...

Planet Earth Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode Island. ... On the colorful map, yellow and red represent areas of higher salinity ...

In the decades since, NASA has created a number of maps, including ones based on the planet’s mineralogy, and earlier this year, the US space agency released a detailed interactive 3D map of Mars.