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 ...

Satellite stocks could be part of one of the next decade's biggest tech trends. Key players include AST SpaceMobile and BlackSky Technology. Investors may be able to profit from SpaceX via its deal ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 1,400 have been decommissioned. About 1,400 have been decommissioned. is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for Synspective today (Oct. 14), the seventh spacecraft it ...

High above the Earth, a new kind of satellite is changing how we fight climate change. Designed to track pollution and carbon emissions in real time, it gives scientists the data they need to hold ...

Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up. The alarming statistic ...

New satellite imagery lays bare the sheer scale of the destruction in the Gaza Strip with two years of Israeli bombardment having turned much of the landscape into a wasteland. The images, sourced ...