Earth’s magnetic field is formed by the movement of the liquid metal, which is generated by the heat that escapes from the core. NOAA NCEI and CIRES Over the past five years, the magnetic pole ...

While those images were revolutionary, they hit a wall in terms of detail. Now, with higher-frequency data, the scientific team can begin to separate the influence of different forces at play.

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Petry assembled this image from seven years of data from NASA’s Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, which was active from 1991 to 2000. The Compton Observatory orbited the Earth at an average ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

High-resolution image of the million-degree hot plasma halo encircling Earth captured by NASA’s JENI instrument. The white rings denote equatorial distance of 4 and 6 Earth radii.

Astronaut Don Pettit captured the image when the ISS was about 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean on January 29, 2025. The image was taken just before sunrise, so the parts of the world visible in ...

The latest image, captured on May 2, focuses on Arsia Mons, which is roughly twice as tall as Earth's largest volcano, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, which rises 6 miles above the seafloor.

Even the most recently created satellite image of the continent, the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), had to fill in the gap between 82.5 degrees and the pole with lower resolution data.

NASA Image Reveals 'Earth's Tallest Lightning' Published Feb 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM EST Updated Feb 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM EST By Rachael O'Connor ...