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 ...

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.

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Landsat 5 has secured a new world record title for being the longest-operating Earth observation satellite after almost three decades in ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com NASA's latest Earth-observation satellite blasted off Monday, continuing a storied four-decade effort to track environmental ...

Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators already skeptical of NASA’s plan to explore hosted payload and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Landsat 5 satellite image of the Wallow North Fire in east central Arizona was taken on June 15, 2011 at 19:54:23 Zulu (3:54 p.m. EDT). This false-colored image uses a 7, 4, 2 band combination ...