CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Launch Services Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo., to provide Delta II launch services ...

IceBridge’s Airborne Topographic Mapper instrument, or ATM, has two lasers that shoot thousands of pulses of light per second in a circular motion that, combined with the plane’s forward motion, ...

From the frozen crags of the Andes and the Rockie mountains to the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, the world’s ice has been melting at an accelerated rate in the last five years. This is ...

When a block of ice the size of Houston, Texas, broke off from East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf in 2019, scientists had anticipated the calving event, but not exactly where it would happen. Now, ...

NASA has indicated its intent to award Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a sole-source contract to continue helping the agency operate and maintain an Earth observation satellite built to primarily measure ...

End-of-season Arctic multiyear sea ice is about 1.5 feet thinner in 2021 than in 2019 Arctic Ocean sea ice lost one-third of its volume in the past 18 years New pan-Arctic snow depth suggests previous ...

A NASA satellite in space that shoots a laser beam down to Earth has spotted still more subsurface lakes sandwiched between Antarctica's land and ice. Antarctica is land with hundreds of feet or ...

NASA’s Launch Services Program announced today that it selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) proven Delta II launch vehicle to launch the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) ...

To catch individual laser photons that have travelled more than 600 miles from a satellite to Earth and back, the satellite's telescope needs to be perfectly positioned. Last week, engineers and ...

Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to a decline in sea ice that persists over several years, called multiyear ice, according to a ...