When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don't expect to see our home planet. But there it was ...

In a remarkable moment captured by NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite, Earth photobombed the Sun, creating a rare and unexpected image. The satellite, which monitors space weather and Earth’s environment, aimed ...

Late on Oct. 21, 2025, a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the far side of the sun, an area currently dominated by the powerful and persistent Active Region 4246. The eruption ...

Earth from space A 2017 satellite photo captured three hurricanes — Katia, Irma and Jose — in a near-perfect line across "hurricane alley" in the Atlantic Ocean. Interestingly, the storms, which are ...

The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of things to come as the joint mission between ...

There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for decades moved us emotionally, scientifically, and philosophically. The iconic Earthrise image of our planet rising ...