Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Imagine trying to spot an object just 30 centimeters wide from hundreds of kilometers above Earth. Years ago, I remember when “satellite view” meant blurry green blobs on a screen. Now, we can see ...

Russia has restored its capability for high-resolution Earth mapping with the recent launch of the new Resurs-P observation satellite. The 6,570-kg (14,480-lb.) spacecraft was orbited by Russia’s ...

Using muon tomography, Ideon remotely mapped the full cave back at New Afton Mine to 25 m or less spatial resolution at a depth of approximately 800 m, using no additional drilling to image 830 ...

Reporters can now access and download satellite images good enough to see individual buildings at almost every location on Earth — in minutes, with no special skills, and entirely for free. Of course, ...