according to NASA's Earth Observatory. The disaster killed at least three people and injured around 40 others, Bloomberg reported at the time. The flooding also destroyed dozens of houses ...

Ranging from September 2004 to December 2023, it spans multiple levels of the atmosphere from ground level up to the lower edge of space, about 110 kilometers above Earth's surface. The region ...

Most volcanoes are born along fault lines that intersect Earth's tectonic plates, because this is where the planet's crust is weakest and magma from the mantle can easily rise to the surface.

Today, around 800,000 people live on the volcano's slopes and up to 3 million people reside within the potential danger zone of future eruptions, making Vesuvius "one of the world's most dangerous ...

Ranging from September 2004 to December 2023, it spans multiple levels of the atmosphere from ground level up to the lower edge of space, about 110 kilometers above Earth's surface. The region ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it ...

Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But the ones that crash on land can spark debates about legal ownership.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — An ambitious, multinational research project funded by NASA and co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth’s biodiversity can be monitored and measured from space, ...

Get a glimpse of the Moon’s rough terrain, as captured during Apollo missions. A view from the surface of another world. Stare into the heart of our galaxy – the Milky Way, filled with billions of ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking ... spanning over 3,800 square miles (10,000 square km), according to the European Space Agency. The colossal salt flat is so large it can ...

Other satellites and crew members on the International Space Station have also documented Earth, taking shots of everywhere from Georgia, USA to the islands of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.