For more than half a century, satellites have been circling Earth, photographing forests, coastlines, farmlands, and cities with a consistency and precision that no other space program has matched.

If you haven't heard of Virginia Norwood, it's about time you did. An aerospace pioneer whose career would have been historic even without its undercurrent of triumph over misogynistic discrimination, ...

NASA transferred ownership and operational control on Thursday of the Landsat 9 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Landsat 9 is the most recent ...

SAN ANTONIO —June 17, 2026— SwRI is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite that is set to launch in 2031 to collect new and improved ...

RIT researchers have been a partner with Landsat projects for decades, and a group is now helping the program prepare for its next iteration with Landsat Next. Landsat is a NASA/USGS program that ...

1. Seattle, Washington, in false color using TM/ETM+ data (Landsat 7). From C. Small, 2006, Urban Landsat: Cities from Space, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications ...

(FOX40.COM) — NASA is inviting the public to see their names spelled out in satellite imagery through a new interactive feature that highlights more than 50 years of Earth observation data from the ...

March 1, 2004, marks the 20th anniversary of operations of the NASA/USGS ‘workhorse’ satellite, Landsat 5. Landsat 5, launched on March 1, 1984, continues to provide important observations of the ...

A new interactive experience from NASA is racing across social media feeds for a simple, delightful reason: it lets people spell their names using real satellite photos of Earth. Launched as part of ...

Historical satellite images can reveal what penguin colonies feed on. A potentially groundbreaking study now shows this.

Virginia T. Norwood passed away earlier this year at the age of 96, and NASA’s farewell to this influential pioneer is a worth a read. Virginia was a brilliant physicist and engineer, and among her ...

Over the coming decades the United States and the world face growing challenges related to an increasing population, rising demand for natural resources, concerns about food security, and a changing ...