New satellite images are helping scientists understand a major tsunami that changed the landscape of a popular tourist ...

On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska company has set its sights on developing a rare-earth element mine by 2016 on southeast Prince of Wales Island. Ucore Rare Metals’ proposed Bokan Mountain Project ...

A NASA satellite captured a stunning mix of cloud streets, spiraling vortices, and a rare polar storm over southern Alaska as ...

Varieties of kelp are seen underwater. A U.S. Department of Energy-funded project will investigate whether kelp and other seaweed in the waters off Alaska's Prince of Wales Island can absorb ...

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over southeastern Alaska to the Malaspina Glacier. The climate and topography of this area over the last 12.5 million years have been favourable for glaciers. During ...

Permafrost. It even sounds intimidating. Permanent frost, forever frozen. Brrrr. Except in our warming planet, the frost is unfreezing, and with it, it is releasing dangerous amounts of greenhouse ...

With the state and nation still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Alaska’s mineral wealth could offer the state a critical lifeline going forward. President Joe Biden may ...

The city of Fairbanks, the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and its surroundings, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Visible in the top-left corner of the image, Fairbanks ...

Alaska has the resources to be the wealthiest jurisdiction on earth. With an $83 billion sovereign wealth fund and the highest per-capita federal investments in the country, we have the extraordinary ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth's surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet's atmosphere. Florida-based startup firm Space ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alaska Communications (NASDAQ: ALSK) has signed a Distribution Partner Agreement with OneWeb, the global communications network powered from space, to expand the ...