The aurora borealis glows on the northern horizon while stars wheel overhead in this long exposure taken near the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Nov. 4, 2021.

In this image taken on Oct. 30, 2021, an aurora dimly intersected with Earth's airglow as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 264 miles above the Pacific Ocean before crossing over Canada.

This collage of pictures shows Dubai, United Arab Emirates, made from around 40 pictures mapped together, digitally rotated and assembled into this large collage.

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on Sept. 30, 2021, shows the flow of lava from the volcano erupting on the Spanish island of La Palma.

Maharloo Lake, a seasonal salt lake in Iran, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Maharloo sits at an altitude of around 1,400 meters above sea level and is located around 27 kilometers southeast of Shiraz, in southwest Iran.

The Netherlands has long been shaped by floods and by efforts to hold back the sea.

On Aug. 16, 2021, Vega lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on flight VV19 to deliver into two separate Sun-synchronous orbits the Earth observation satellite Pléiades Neo-4 and four auxiliary payloads: SunStorm, RadCube and LEDSAT developed through...

Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world’s trees. A new study, led by Russian scientists using data from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, produced new estimates of biomass contained in Russian forests, and confirms...

During the spring and summer in the Barents Sea, north of Norway and Russia, phytoplankton show up in abundance. Clouds permitting, the showy displays of these blue and green “blooms” are visible in satellite images just about every year. Yet no two phytoplankton...

The Gulf of Martaban, an arm of the Andaman Sea located in southern Myanmar, is featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.