If the Trump administration gets its way, we won’t have much hope of learning more. The White House’s 2026 budget would end ...

USGS excels at this sort of work: Its Bee Lab inventories all the nation’s native bees; the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey do much the same for birds, and their cutting-edge ...

Capital Weather Gang New Earth-observing satellite beams back first images. Landsat 9, launched in September by NASA and USGS, offers ultra-detailed views of the Earth’s surface.

The photos of the respective areas were taken June 16 and June 24. Follow a map of rising rivers in the region The areas received 10 inches or more of rainfall within a three-day-period.

Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that launched Sept. 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth.

Launched in 2012, the USGS STEP-UP program uses students on the spectrum for a myriad of projects, including typing up records from tagged birds, sorting microfossils, identifying species on trail-cam ...

Leveraging supercomputers and cloud computing, the USGS has released 4,800 digital terrain models (DTMs) and 155,000 high-resolution images of the red planet.

Why this bird of prey in decline is thriving at a Pennsylvania landfill (PHOTOS) Updated: Jul. 24, ... The ID numbers are recorded with the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory.

Rob Thieler, a USGS scientist who was the lead developer of iPlover, said data gathered by the app over the next few years could help scientists understand where to focus their restoration efforts. It ...

The world's largest active volcano has erupted after being quiet for 38 years. Hawaii's Mauna Loa erupted on Sunday (Nov. 27) at 11:30 p.m. local time (Nov. 28 at 4:30 a.m. EST or 0930 GMT ...

NASA and USGS began the Earth As Art project at the dawn of the millennium after scientists saw the beauty in the visual data they were collecting. Garnered for scientific purposes, the images ...