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 ...

The Continental Collision That Started It All The collision between India and Eurasia began roughly 50 to 55 million years ...

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 ...

The world's glaciers are melting faster than before, but it still takes decades to see changes that are happening at a glacial pace. To look back in time, researchers are turning to a once-secret ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...