Maggie Coll from Edinburgh will spend five months 9,000 miles from home counting penguins in Antarctica.

A joint European-Japanese mission captures a space view of the internal structure of a cloud.

Europe's Earthcare satellite will tell us if the planet could lose the cooling effect of clouds.

Another big iceberg breaks from in front of the UK's Halley research base - the third in three years.

London company SEN's ultra high-definition cameras intend to stream spectacular views of Earth.

Satellites reveal a 50-year record of climate change by tracing the lumpiness in ice surfaces.

The veteran ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft dives to destruction 2,000km west of California.

Scientists track down what are probably the last unidentified Antarctic emperor penguin colonies.