A Proba-V satellite view shows the internationally protected, volcanic archipelago of the Galápagos and its surrounding marine reserve.

The explosion unleashed an estimated 173 kilotons of energy”more than 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima during World War II.

In the wake of an intense winter storm, historic floods have broken out across the central United States.

Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA's first chief astronomer, is known as the Mother of Hubble.

This photograph, taken a short hike from the Geographic South Pole in Antarctica, shows some of the antennas comprising the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) array.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured this true-color image on Feb. 5, 2019, just three days after heavy rainfall in Rome and the surrounding area of Lazio, Italy.

The northeast Kenya region tends to be very arid, and this false-color image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite has been processed to highlight different types of rock, soil and sand in pinks, purples and yellows.

Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captures a polar vortex moving from central Canada into the U.S. Midwest from January 20 through January 29.

This particularly dramatic picture was taken with the moon over Lake Maggiore, the second largest lake in Italy and the largest in southern Switzerland.