Category: earth

Artificial lights at night brightened up planet Earth by 16% from 2014 to 2022, a new study using satellite images has found.

The dust storm created travel complications and other issues for Texans.

A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space.

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

New satellite imagery reveals that Doñana National Park, one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, is shrinking so rapidly that it could disappear within a human lifetime.

As global tensions rise, the island has become a geopolitical pressure gauge, revealing how the old international legal order is beginning to fray.

ESA marked the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics by capturing the venue from low-Earth orbit.