Algae Swirls Across a South African Reservoir
On clear days in Hartbeespoort, South Africa, satellite images often reveal a reservoir with shades of deep blue…
A Year in Orbit: The 12 Most Stunning NASA Satellite Images of 2025
From devastating wildfires to swirling cloud vortices, NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites captured remarkable views of our planet…
Lake Eyre Blushes – NASA Science
The year 2025 was extraordinary for Lake Eyre (also called Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre) in South Australia. Water started…
The Galaxy Next Door – NASA Science
From the International Space Station, astronauts gaze upon a vast sea of stars, the view almost entirely unencumbered…
A Siberian Snowman in Billings
Icons of winter are sometimes found in unexpected places. In one striking example, a series of oval lagoons…
A Subtle Return of La Niña – NASA Science (.gov)
A Subtle Return of La Niña NASA Science (.gov)La Niña returned for the fifth time in six years, creating…
New Timing for Stubble Burning in India
Every year for decades, long rivers of smoke and haze have spread across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern…
Pacific Moisture Drenches the U.S. Northwest
Waves of heavy rainfall in early December 2025 spurred landslides and flooding in parts of the Pacific Northwest.…
City Lights Glow Along Moonlit Waters
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this oblique view of Earth’s limb, showing the Florida Peninsula…
A Hot and Fiery Decade for Kīlauea
Of the hundreds of active volcanoes that NASA satellites have observed since the early 2000s, Kīlauea stands out.…
Senyar Swamps Sumatra – NASA Science
Tropical cyclones almost never form over the Strait of Malacca. The narrow waterway separating Peninsular Malaysia from the…
World of Change: El Niño, La Niña, and Rainfall
Perhaps nowhere is the intricate relationship between the ocean and the atmosphere more evident than in the eastern…