New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently launched the Biomass satellite into orbit from Kourou in French Guiana using a Vega-C rocket.Over the coming ...

Imagine the world without Antarctica's ice sheets. If Antarctica were to melt entirely, it would trigger an unprecedented rise in sea levels, potentially flooding vast swaths of the Earth. Antarctica ...

ANTARTICA (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — Scientists are investigating "ghostly" signals detected below the Antarctic ice.

Explore the most extreme construction sites worldwide, including: - The Rothera Research Station in Antarctica - The Etihad Railway Megaproject in the desert - Norway’s New Coastal Highway - Tibet’s H ...

The maps were produced from composited image swath data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over Antarctica for the 2003-2004 austral summer season..

High above the windswept Ross Ice Shelf, a helium balloon the size of a football stadium drifts in the polar twilight. Slung ...

Joining the “Coldest Morning in Eight Years” Club was Condobolin, NSW, which dropped to an icy –5.5°C. Not only was this the ...

Photographer on Ice Moustache encrusted with ice, photographer Herbert Ponting stands on an iceberg near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in 1911. Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910 ...

People have rushed to social media to ask questions after spotting one unusual detail on a live FlightRadar plane tracker map ...

Sonar data reveal how krill fishing fleets overlap with penguins, seals, and whales—posing growing threats to Antarctic ...