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From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

Nasa astronaut Don Pettit has shared a mind-blowing video from the International Space Station showing bright purple ...

While Earth celebrated 2026 with fireworks below, the year’s first sunrise quietly appeared above the planet, captured from ...

A look at the most-read space stories of 2025, covering satellite activity, space missions, scientific discoveries, and natural events observed from Earth ...

Photos shared by NASA show what life looked like 250 miles above Earth in 2025, including images of hurricanes, the northern ...

2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the milestone with a satellite-based image tracing the canal's historic route across New York State. According ...

A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The ...

From orbit, Earth looks less like a postcard and more like a living system of light, color and motion, where human fingerprints are subtle rather than screamingly obvious. The popular claim that the ...

As Hurricane Erin hovered over the Atlantic Ocean, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was spotted from above by a camera on the International Space Station. The SpaceTV-1 camera ...

University of Texas Arlington provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, ...