Artist’s illustration of the ICESat 2 satellite and its six green laser beams designed to measure the height of ice sheets. Credit: NASA The satellite awaiting launch early Saturday from California ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story is part of a series, The Wild Side of Sea Level Rise, which explores the basic research behind ocean expansion and its impacts on coastal ecology. My photos from last summer ...

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 ...

Oct. 4 (UPI) --NASA's polar-orbiting probe IceSat-2 fired its laser instrument for the first time this week, yielding the satellite's first height measurement. The feat happened as IceSat-2 passed ...

NASA officials hope to launch as early as October 2015 the second Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) as part of a $650 million project to measure changes in polar ice sheets and sea ...