A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
An iceberg from Petermann Glacier encounters Joe Island in northwestern Greenland, visible in images captured by the OLI…
One of Earth’s Driest Deserts Just Turned White
Back-to-back winter storms brought a rare burst of snow to Chile’s Atacama Desert in August 2026, turning parts…
New Mexico’s Largest Reservoir Was Nearly Full. Now It’s at 1.4%
New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir was nearly full on June 2, 1994 (left), in contrast to very low…
NASA Reveals the Black Sea’s Stunning Annual Turquoise Transformation
NASA’s PACE satellite captured the Black Sea glowing turquoise on June 22, 2026, as a massive bloom of…
Hektoria Glacier Collapse Reveals How Fast Antarctica Can Fall Apart
Hektoria Glacier, October 2022. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S.…
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast.…
NASA’s seafloor map: How scientists mapped the ocean floor from space |
For many years, scientists have known more about the Moon’s surface than the depths of our planet’s oceans.…
NASA Captures Stunning Images of a Titanic Iceberg’s Collapse
Iceberg A-23A, once colossal and long-lived, is breaking apart as it drifts into warmer seas. Once the world’s…