Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs...

No matter how often we hear about the developed world becoming more like Big Brother every day, it’s not until you see images like these from NASA that you get creeped out. How much are we being watched, traced, listened to, recorded? Anyone who...

The Pentagon has approved plans to buy and launch two commercial-class imagery satellites to complement its classified constellation of spy satellites.

DIY helicopters were something that shocked everyone, a couple of weeks ago when they were introduced by an entrepreneur in China. However, the scientists at The University of Surrey have another DIY in making: satellites. Strange as it may...

The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials.The satellites could spy on enemy...

MSNBC’s Alex Witt talked to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff about a new proposal by the Bush administration to use satellites for domestic surveillance.

A satellite will be launched next month from the Vandenburg AFB, which is deemed to be one of the best to capture images from space. GeoEye 1 is capable of 16-inch resolution or .41 meters as the US government lays strict conditions regarding...

One of the basic problems that stop the complete and competent use of solar energy is the simple fact that most often we just do not have enough sun hitting the panels and despite our best efforts, it always seems that we miss more than we hit. Add...

Scientists have used data from instruments in a constellation of NASA satellites to see deep inside clouds, which would help to shed new light on the link between clouds, pollution and rainfall.Clouds have typically posed a problem to scientists...

The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch ten satellites, including eight from abroad, which will be carried by PSLV-C9, on April 28 from Sriharikota. The cluster of satellites to be lifted includes the Indian satellite Cartosat-2A,...