"like scanning the inside of a globe," according to an agency statement. The satellite will launch into a polar orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Over the past centuries, Earth's magnetic north has been drifting east at an accelerating pace, shifting thousands of kilometers across the globe ... and other satellite-based radio navigation ...

In Europe and around the globe, melting glaciers are transforming both landscapes and national borders. In this article, Elzė ...

Close calls are becoming more common as low Earth orbit becomes more and more crowded with satellites and debris.

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic ... and the rest is covered with land. A globe is a model of the Earth and shows what it looks like from space. Some globes show how the land is ...