Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

When the United States launched its Hexagon KH-9 surveillance satellites in the 1970s, the hope was to collect crucial intelligence on Soviet activities as they surveyed over 877 million square miles ...

ESA’s GOCE satellite has been orbiting the Earth for more than a year and surveying its gravitational field more accurately than any instrument previously. The goal of the researchers – including ...

During the Cold War, spy satellites were constantly circling the Earth. But while the intent of those satellites is generally to track human activities, the imagery they captured has also proved to be ...

Josh Maurer created 3D models of the changing Himalayan glaciers using declassified spy satellite images taken from different angles dating back to the 1970s and more recent satellite data. Credit: ...

Plantlife is growing higher up Mount Everest (and other parts of the Himalayas) than it did in the past, say scientists writing in Global Change Biology—a trend that may reflect temperature rises. The ...

Scientists in the UK have conducted an analysis of satellite data and uncovered a trend of new vegetation growth at high altitudes in the Himalayas. This expanding coverage of plant life is in-line ...

The averaged admittance function computed from six long-range profiles (1650 km) of the merged satellite free air anomaly across Himalayas and Tibet shows good fit for a regional compensation model ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first oceanic microplate in the Indian Ocean–helping identify when the initial collision between India and Eurasia occurred, leading to the birth ...

Scientists have been ringing alarm bells about the future of the Himalayas, known as “one of the world's most sensitive hotspots to global climate change.” Much of experts’ attention has been focused ...