A United Launch Alliance-branded Delta II rocket took to the skies from a Vandenberg Air Force Base, California-based launch pad on Saturday to deploy NASA’s next-generation Ice, Cloud, and land ...

More than a trillion new measurements of Earth's height - blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to mangrove forests in Florida, to sea ice surrounding Antarctica - are now available to the ...

Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists including glaciologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

NASA kicked off its ICESat-2 mission to monitor our planet’s ice sheets from space using a laser-scanning satellite this morning,… Read More ...

A year after its launch - and now with more than a trillion laser pulses under its belt - the lidar equipment on board NASA's ICESat-2 satellite is said to be providing "potentially transformational" ...

Less than three months into its mission, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is already exceeding scientists' expectations. The satellite is measuring the height of sea ice ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA has successfully launched a new satellite to monitor and measure ...

This color-coded map shows the amount of ice gained or lost by Antarctica between 2003 and 2019. Dark reds and purples show large average rates of ice loss near the Antarctic coast, while blues show ...

On September 15, NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite left Earth on the last Delta II rocket. Happily, the satellite is providing a successful send-off to the Delta II, as it has started its important mission ...

NASA officials hope to launch as early as October 2015 the second Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) as part of a $650 million project to measure changes in polar ice sheets and sea ...

With each pass of the ICESat-2 satellite, the mission is adding to datasets tracking Earth's rapidly changing ice. Less than three months into its mission, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation ...

For the second straight year, NASA researchers endured low temperatures, biting winds, and high altitude to conduct another 88-South Traverse. The 470-mile expedition in one of the most barren ...