A prolonged drought along with years of overconsumption, an inefficient agricultural sector and mismanagement have led to the ...

With an apparent brightness of magnitude 9.7, the object's light requires 17 minutes and 18 seconds to traverse the distance to our planet.

The Sentinel-6B is the second of two satellites in a $1 billion program to monitor sea levels over a full decade.

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

Babanusa in West Kordofan region has been under RSF siege for two years. The armed group has repeatedly tried to capture the ...

We’ll be closing up this BBC Verify Live page soon, so here’s an at-a-glance summary of what the team has been reporting on today. We’ve been using satellite pictures to assess the path of devastation ...

Years ago, scientists noted something odd: Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect nearly the same amount of sunlight back into space. The reason why this symmetry is odd is because the ...

China has overtaken the U.S. in the number of spy satellite launches, fielding advanced optical, radar, and geosynchronous systems that challenge American space dominance and targeting control. This ...

We’re going to be closing up this live page shortly, but keep an eye out for more coverage from BBC Verify teams in London and Washington DC this evening. In the meantime, take a moment now to read ...

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Two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from spaceports in Florida and California on Sunday afternoon, adding 56 more satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. The second of these two ...

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