From orbit, Earth’s rivers look less like tranquil blue ribbons and more like power tools carving into a living planet. New ...

SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external organizations to support instruments ...

Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.

A U.S.-Indian Earth satellite's ability to see through clouds, revealing insights and characteristics of our planet's surface, is on display in a colorful, newly released image showing the Mississippi ...

A new NASA Earth-observing satellite featured Maine’s coast in its first radar image. The satellite, which was launched July 30, took the image of Maine on Aug. 21. It shows Mount Desert Island, an ...

NASA's Earth-observing satellites captured 12 significant events in 2025, revealing the planet's dynamic systems, from the Palisades fire burn scar in Los Angeles to the aftermath of a glacier ...

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...

The last time someone photographed the exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere separating it from outer space, was in the 1970s from the surface of the Moon. This is a problem for two ...

The NISAR mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO.) The satellite, which launched July 30 from India, is designed to observe and map Earth in detail to ...