Astronauts will continue to photograph their home whether from low-Earth orbit or, as the Apollo astronauts once did, from the Moon.

The islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago rival the Galápagos in their abundance of endemic plants.

A popular place for sandboarding, Huacachina is the only natural desert oasis in South America.

The swerving path of Antarctic iceberg A-68A is dictated by a large and powerful current.

In the 1960s, the caldera was used for geology field training for the Apollo astronauts.

New research shows that as Earth’s climate is changing, increased carbon absorption by plants in the Arctic is being offset by a corresponding decline in the tropics.

Scientists have identified an unsettling trend – as levels of CO2 in the atmosphere increase, 86 percent of land ecosystems globally are becoming progressively less efficient at absorbing it.

In September and October, the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument aboard the International Space Station observed smoke from the ongoing wildfires using solar occultation, a measurement technique that involves looking at light from the Sun as it passes through Earth’s... Read More

An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and commercial satellites to identify an unexpectedly large number of trees spread across arid and semi-arid areas.

Dune fields of interest to scientists who study the Red Planet stand out in the Kobuk Valley amid a backdrop of green.

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite

Human-produced noise and light pollution is troublesome to our avian neighbors, according to new research from a team at California Polytechnic State University, published Nov. 11 in Nature.

A towering thunder cloud stands at the intersection of moist tropical air and dry, dusty plumes.

Tidal swings here are greater than at any other place on the east coast of Australia.