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atom bombs

The Truth Is Out There at the Dreamland Resort (or Should We Say ‘Area 51?’)

What’s the real story behind America’s most infamous Air Force base?
The Podcast Team July 1, 2025
U.S. Air Force Capt. Samuel “RaZZ” Larson, F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team commander, passes over the flight line at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, July 9, 2024
politics

Who Swarmed Langley Air Force Base With Drones?

For 17 nights in 2024, unidentified drones circled the historic Air Force base. To this day, no official explanation has been given.
The Podcast Team June 19, 2025
Photographer Aakash Selvan used a drone to to capture this "Floating Islands" image of living <em>phumdis</em> on northeastern India's Loktak Lake.
islands

Can Loktak Lake's Wondrous Floating Islands Bounce Back?

A photographer's drone's-eye image of the famous phumdis of northeastern India shows a unique environment undergoing change.
Gemma Tarlach January 31, 2023
With ice as the medium, wind, water, and falling objects create art on a frozen lake in Slovenia.
science

How Water, Wind, and Chance Sculpted an Icy Work of Art

Lake stars, ice rings, and other natural phenomena brought magic to a small Slovenian lake.
Gemma Tarlach November 10, 2022
Television and podcast host Alie Ward is a human lost-and-found.
parks

Reuniting a Pilot and a Lost Drone Is Some Spy-Level Stuff

It started with some serious sleuthing skills and ended with a new friendship.
Alie Ward June 30, 2022
Viewed from overhead on a gloomy autumn day, a poplar forest in Serbia looks otherworldly.
forests

Is This a Forest or Ghostly Hands From the Great Beyond?

Bad weather and dazzling white poplars helped create this spooky shot.
Gemma Tarlach October 19, 2021
Iron-rich springs at Australia's Lake Tyrrell provide intense color in <em>Heart of the Salt Lake.</em>
geology

Is This an Australian Salt Lake or a 'Beating Heart Laid Bare'?

Iron-rich springs generate intense color in a stark landscape that, from above, might be mistaken for a crime scene.
Gemma Tarlach October 12, 2021
<em>Extragalactic</em> won the 1st Classified award in the Nature category of this year's Drone Photo Awards.
volcanoes

Is This an Erupting Volcano or the Eye of Sauron?

An award-winning image, taken via drone, captures the dreadful beauty of one of nature's violent shows of power.
Gemma Tarlach October 4, 2021
List

Playing With Light and Perspective With One of Our Top Photo Contributors

Patience pays off.
Jonathan Carey September 24, 2021
Greatest science fair ever.
volcanoes

Why Does Iceland's Fagradalsfjall Volcano Look Like a School Science Project?

A spatter cone and runny lava give this eruption its classic look, and make it relatively approachable.
Robin George Andrews March 26, 2021
Steam blowing off Iceland's Holuhraun lava field.
space exploration

In Iceland, Testing the Drones That Could Be the Future of Mars Exploration

“We’re going to do so many cool things.”
Robin George Andrews January 26, 2021
A girl observes a partial solar eclipse on the Mahanakhon Skywalk Glass Tray in Bangkok, Thailand (June 2020).
photography

2020 Might Be a Year Best Looked at From Above

A collection of curious and wondrous views from around the world.
Winnie Lee December 29, 2020
An aerial view of a portion of the site that a drone surveyed in Kansas.
earthworks

How Drones Help Archaeologists Peer Into the Earth

A late-night drone flight spotted a large, circular earthwork beneath a field in Kansas.
Karen Chernick October 9, 2020
Drone, meet tuna.
oceans

Scientists Tracked Truly Enormous Tuna From Way Up in the Air

Drones helped researchers keep up with fish that are longer than a person and as fast as a car.
Jessica Leigh Hester June 10, 2020
The researchers studied aerial images of 86 southern right whales off the coast of Argentina.
science

Drone-Piloting Scientists 'Weighed' Whales From 130 Feet in the Air

In Argentina, aerial imagery helps researchers get a close look at southern right whales from a distance.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 2, 2019
Behold, the <em>Hibiscadelphus woodii</em>.
cliffs

A Remote Valley, a Drone, And an Extinct Flower That's Not Extinct Anymore

A find from Hawai'i's cliffs.
Evan Nicole Brown April 18, 2019
"The Condor," from above.
archaeology

Found: Giant Drawings of Warriors, Etched on Peru's Desert Hillsides

They were discovered with drones.
Cara Giaimo April 6, 2018
Hodgson among his decoys.
animals

Why Drones Are Counting Thousands of Decoy Ducks

To test the gadget's data skills, researchers speckled a beach with fake fowl.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 20, 2018