Earth from space A 2022 satellite photo shows a shimmering trail of dried, chemically-enriched mud left behind by a torrent of wastewater that flooded a South African mining town, killing three ...

These sandy spots are much less obvious in other satellite images of the area. Most volcanoes are born along fault lines that intersect Earth's tectonic plates, because this is where the planet's ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... which resides about 7,000 light-years from Earth. The distinctive structure of the pillars is created by a nearby cluster ...

But in 2013, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space, Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging — captured this image of Earth and the moon from 61 million miles away.

Tokyo-based startup ArkEdge Space claims it has snapped what is “probably” the highest quality images of Earth taken by a small CubeSat. The photos were taken 410 kilometers above the Earth ...

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more favorable views of renewable energy and the environment.

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit shared his stunning photographs from his view miles above the Earth on the International Space ...

People who believe this conspiracy, sometimes flagged with the hashtag "#NASAhoax" on social media, will say that amazing space pictures of Mars, Pluto and even Earth are fake, computer-generated ...

making Vesuvius "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," according to NASA's Earth Observatory. In the image, Vesuvius' caldera — a large bowl-like depression caused by the collapse of the ...