In total, the reef system covers approximately 132,900 square miles (344,400 square kilometres), which makes it roughly the same size as Japan. In fact, it’s so large that it can be seen from space – ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast on 1 April 2017. Extending more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq ...

NanoAvionics MP42 satellite is equipped with a selfie stick and GoPro camera. See the footage it captured of the Great Barrier Reef after deploying the camera. Credit: NanoAvionics | mash mix: Space.c ...

Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how ...

Tumbling backwards off the side of our tender, we plunge into an inky ocean. It’s just past dusk and the orange sunset is quickly fading as we release air out of our buoyancy vests and sink into the ...

This satellite image, acquired by the Landsat-8 satellite on 23 August 2013, takes us off the east coast of Australia where currents swirl in the water around corals. The Great Barrier Reef is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NanoAvionics MP42 satellite is equipped with a selfie stick and GoPro camera. See the footage it captured of the Great Barrier ...