WASHINGTON — A pair of international Earth observing spacecraft will now launch six months later than planned because of a roughly $200 million cost overrun on NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is NASA's most technologically ...

United Launch Alliance is readying the company's final Delta 2 rocket for takeoff Saturday on a flight to put a $1 billion NASA satellite -- ICESat-2 -- into orbit. The satellite will fire 10,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CORRECTION: The article now contains the correct figure for NASA spending to date on IceSat-2. WASHINGTON — With the project likely to bust its $559 million development budget, NASA is preparing a ...

The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite, or ICESat-2, is scheduled to launch Saturday morning as part of a $1 billion mission to provide scientists with a detailed picture of Earth’s changing ...

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 ...