This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the ...

Earth's moon, on the other hand, has a diameter of about 2,160 miles. As Phobos crossed in front of the sun, it appeared as a strange googly-eye to the rover on the planet's surface. Image of Mars ...

When Hurricane Helene hit the southeastern United States last month, it caused widespread power outages and devastating flooding on the ground. But as revealed in new NOAA data, the superstorm also ...

Earth's city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow ...

Images captured on Aug. 12 and Sept. 29 and shared by Earth Observatory show changes to the landscape, with a green lake ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

An image shows the Antarctic ozone hole in 2024. The hole reached its greatest one-day extent for the year on September 28, at 8.5 million square miles. NASA Earth Observatory "The gradual improvement ...

That's more than four times the normal rainfall for the whole month of September ... stretching across 3.6 million square miles. Satellite images from September showed huge swaths of it carpeted ...