NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 14, 2025. 

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used data from an airborne radar to measure the movement of the slow-moving landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County.

Rivers and streams wrap around Earth in complex networks millions of miles long, driving trade, nurturing ecosystems and stocking critical reserves of freshwater. 

Level-1 data acquired on Jan. 9, 2025, by the satellite’s atmospheric lidar have been used to show the smoke layer from the current Los Angeles wildfire disaster, which is being carried over the Pacific Ocean by strong winds. 

In Europe and around the globe, melting glaciers are transforming both landscapes and national borders.

The October 2024 global surface temperature was 2.38°F (1.32°C) above the 20th-century average of 57.2°F (14.0°C), making it the second-warmest October on record, 0.09°F (0.05°C) below October 2023. According to NCEI’s Global Annual Temperature Outlook, there is a...

The colors of autumn across the western border of North Macedonia and Greece are captured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from Oct. 27, 2024. 

NASA recently evaluated initial flight data and imagery from Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-4 (PTD-4), confirming proper checkout of the spacecraft’s systems.

The Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 acquired this image of Mount Taranaki, a snow-capped mountain in New Zealand that is ringed by a dark green forest.