The satellite images will help analyze carbon-rich areas to understand how the ecosystem reacts to external stressors.

NASA's exploration robots have rumbled around Mars, swooped around Saturn, and flown well beyond the planets, into interstellar space. But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines to ...

Earth Day, marked annually on April 22, exists primarily to inspire the global population to work together to protect our planet from environmental harm. But it’s also a chance to celebrate everything ...

These amazing images of Earth from space provide a unique perspective of our planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Another year, another trip around the Sun! I’ve already made more of those trips than I care to recount. But even so, I’m just as entranced now by how our planet looks from space as I was more than a ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) are pleased to announce the popular Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) web site is turning 10. For a ...

The probe took a farewell look back at Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission ...

An unexpected moment captured from orbit has offered a rare glimpse into the growing complexity of Earth’s low orbit environment. A satellite image, discovered on Google Earth, appears to show a ...

What can you spot in this latest global picture of Earth? There are crisp turquoise seas around Cuba, an agricultural fire in Northern India and, of course, the rest of our planet as seen in the first ...

To read this article in PDF format, please click here. In recent years, the use of Google Earth’s satellite imagery has become an increasingly common method for locating or viewing specific addresses.

The images, showing the orbs separated by the brooding darkness of space, were taken as the Lucy spacecraft came by for a gravitational assist. Reading time 3 minutes NASA’s Lucy spacecraft got its ...