City lights sprawl across Earth’s surface below a constant glow in the upper atmosphere.
Published Oct 23, 2018
A pair of sounding rockets took aim at the aurora over Svalbard, Norway, to help scientists understand how Earth loses oxygen into space.
Published Dec 17, 2018
A geomagnetic storm in early October lit up the skies with northern lights that were detected by an Earth-observing satellite.
Published Oct 10, 2012
An astronaut caught a glimpse of the aurora australis while looking out across the Indian Ocean.
Published Jul 2, 2017
Satellites are shedding new light on the invisible processes and rhythms at play at the intersection between Earth and space.
Published Dec 26, 2019
Photographers captured these digital photos of a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket and the aurora borealis on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU).
Published Jan 4, 2011
Solar storms smacked into Earth’s magnetic field and provoked auroras over the southern and northern hemisphere just after the summer solstice.
Published Jun 28, 2015
Sounding rockets probe the way auroras and solar activity affect the atmosphere.
Published Feb 3, 2015
Astronauts captured this unusual view of a Perseid meteor descending into Earth's atmosphere in August 2011.
Published Aug 17, 2011
A strong solar wind stream stirred up a display of northern lights over northern Canada.
Published Dec 25, 2016
Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planet’s limb.
Published Apr 2, 2003
Space Shuttle Atlantis streaked across the sky to its final landing at Kennedy Space Center.
Published Jul 28, 2011
The Suomi NPP satellite captured a glimpse of the northern lights over North America.
Published Apr 24, 2018
The colors and altitude are often the same, but the atmospheric processes are different.
Published Aug 16, 2020
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station adjusted the camera for night imaging and captured the green veils and curtains of an aurora that spanned thousands of kilometers over Canada.
Published Aug 8, 2016
NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes will give an inside view of the vast Van Allen radiation belts.
Published Aug 31, 2012
For the first time, scientists will be able to monitor the daily and hourly weather of the uppermost parts of the atmosphere.
Published Mar 18, 2018
Over 20 years, more than 550 small asteroids streaked across our skies.
Published Nov 21, 2014
At the boundary between Earth and space, particles and gases and energy do an intricate and colorful dance that varies daily.
Published Jan 7, 2020
Camilla, mascot for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, took a ride into space during a radiation storm.
Published Apr 29, 2012
From a vantage point about 360 km (225 miles) over the Earth, Space Station crewmembers photographed the crescent moon through the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. At the bottom of the image, a closed deck of clouds is probably at about 6 km (3 miles). The shades of blue grading to black are caused by the scatter of light as it strikes gas molecules of the very low density upper atmosphere.
Published Feb 23, 2004
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission and the famous “Blue Marble” full Earth image, Goddard Space Flight Center’s Visualization and Analysis Lab has rendered a new visualization inspired by the mission.
Published Dec 7, 2002
