The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does not include smaller fires within each complex of fires) that have erupted across the region during this fire season.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched NASA's Parker Solar Probe on Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska.

Europe's next four Galileo satellites lifted off on July 25, 2018, from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 launcher.

Regardless the amount of winter ice cover, the waters off the Alaskan coast usually come alive each spring with blooms of phytoplankton.

As the International Space Station flew overhead, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured this photograph of a changing landscape in the heart of Madagascar.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Gosses Bluff crater in the Northern Territory of Australia.

As Tropical Storm Bud was lashing parts of western Mexico and causing flooding that extended into the American Southwest, a tropical disturbance was spinning over the Gulf of Mexico and straddling southeastern Texas.

Over the years, scientists have captured spectacular photographs while mapping ice during NASA's Operation IceBridge mission