Incredible View From Space: Kuwait and the Second Largest Oil Field in the World
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kuwait in the Middle East. With a total area of around 17,800 sq km (6,880 sq mi), Kuwait…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kuwait in the Middle East. With a total area of around 17,800 sq km (6,880 sq mi), Kuwait…
Tropical forest ecosystems are an important part of the global carbon cycle as they take up and store large amounts of CO2. It is however…
New Mitigation Strategy Bears Great Potential Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large additional quantities of greenhouse gases could be released,…
Fresh evidence of how the continent of Zealandia was created has been published by an international team of scientists co-led by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University…
Mysterious bone circles made from the remains of dozens of mammoths have revealed clues about how ancient communities survived Europe’s ice age. About 70 of…
Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angle. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan–the most powerful quake…
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Most of the archipelago is part of Nunavut – the largest and…
Scientists Find Earth and Moon Not Identical Oxygen Twins Scientists at The University of New Mexico (UNM) have found that the Earth and Moon have…
Arrival delayed! Water, carbon, and nitrogen were not immediately supplied to Earth. Spearheaded by earth scientists of the University of Cologne, an international team of…
Known for its wide swathes of rippling, textured, gently sloping dunes, the Terra Sabaea region on Mars is home to many fascinating geological features –…
Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment…
Kevin Costner, eat your heart out. New research shows that the early Earth, home to some of our planet’s first lifeforms, may have been a…
Machine learning technique may help scientists more accurately map vast underground geologic structures. Over the last century, scientists have developed methods to map the structures…
Mineralogists from Jena and Japan make a surprising discovery on soil samples of the asteroid “Itokawa.” Mineralogists from Jena and Japan discover a previously unknown…
Using zircon crystals, researchers have discovered the route of a massive ancient river that could help find new reservoirs of fossil fuels and suggest how…
South American volcano showing early warning signs of ‘potential collapse,’ research shows. One of South America’s most prominent volcanoes is producing early warning signals of…
Mars is very much a world of two halves, as this new image from ESA’s Mars Express highlights, showing where these dramatically different regions come…
For Valentine’s Day, we bring you this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image capturing a beautiful heart-shaped geographical formation in the dramatic landscape of the southern highlands of…