Earth

New Desktop Image Alert: The Moon Over Earth

If you're like me, you don't change your computer's desktop background nearly often enough... especially not considering all the fantastic…

11 years ago

How Many Moons Does Earth Have?

Look up into the night sky and count the moons. You can see only one moon, "the" Moon. But does…

11 years ago

Herbal Earth: Spectacular Vegetation Views of Our Home Planet and the Natural World of Living Green Life

Earth’s Vegetation from Suomi NPP satellite. World map of vegetation data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite (National Polar-orbiting Partnership)…

11 years ago

Say Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth

Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn…

11 years ago

What Does Antarctica Look Like Under the Ice?

Although it sits isolated at the "bottom of the world" Antarctica is one of the most influential continents on Earth,…

11 years ago

Swath of Destruction from Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Visible from Space

The tornado that devastated the region around Moore and Newcastle, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013 has been determined to be…

11 years ago

Stunning View of Earth and Orbital Sunset from the Space Station

This is just a gorgeous shot of our home planet from the International Space Station, shared by astronaut Karen Nyberg…

11 years ago

How Old Is The Earth?

This article comes from the Universe Today archive, but was updated with this spiffy video. How old is the Earth?…

11 years ago

Pretty Picture: Orbital Sunrise Over the South Pacific

Today's NASA Image of the Day is just plain pretty; pretty as a postcard. All it is missing is the…

12 years ago

Time-Lapse: Earth

If you couldn't tell, we love time-lapse videos... whether they're made of photos looking up at the sky from Earth…

12 years ago