Sunglint brightened river and lake water in this photograph of southeastern Chad.
Published Apr 6, 2025
Gateway towns in Wyoming and Montana flank the Rocky Mountains and provide an access point to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
Published Mar 30, 2025
The Italian region displays a network of lines—and one nearly perfect circle—that connect inland settlements and agricultural areas with the bustling Adriatic coast.
Published Mar 23, 2025
A salt-encrusted landscape surrounds the Colorado River where it once emptied into the Gulf of California.
Published Mar 16, 2025
The turquoise waters of Ngangla Ringco add vivid color to the otherwise brown landscape in this part of the Tibetan Plateau.
Published Mar 9, 2025
Nighttime lights reveal the structure of Turkmenistan’s capital city.
Published Feb 23, 2025
Urban structures and the city’s Great Mosque stand out amid the hilly, desert landscape of western Saudi Arabia.
Published Feb 16, 2025
The dormant volcano in northern Iran lies in the Alborz Mountains, which separate the region’s wet coastal lowlands from the deserts toward the south.
Published Feb 9, 2025
Florida’s largest open-water estuary is known for its shallow, calm, blue-green waters.
Published Feb 2, 2025
A multitude of mining and agricultural activities surround the Western Australian town, southeast of Perth.
Published Jan 26, 2025
The concentric rings of an ancient, extinct volcanic system stand above the island nation’s relatively flat central highlands.
Published Jan 19, 2025
The older and newer cities of the Greater Cairo region look very different at night when viewed from above.
Published Jan 12, 2025
The volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, displays numerous depressions that collect meltwater during the warmer months of the year.
Published Jan 5, 2025
In November 2024, an astronaut captured a striking photo of the Moon as it lingered just above Earth’s horizon.
Published Jan 1, 2025
Water levels were low in Razazah Lake when an astronaut snapped this photograph from the International Space Station.
Published Dec 29, 2024
An astronaut photographed the structure of a burgeoning cumulus congestus near the shore of the Persian Gulf.
Published Dec 21, 2024
The Cheleken Peninsula and its two parallel spits comprise the hammerhead-like landform that juts into the eastern Caspian Sea.
Published Dec 15, 2024
An astronaut’s sweeping nighttime photograph of Namibia and South Africa reveals the region’s lighted communities, many of which are centered around mining.
Published Dec 8, 2024
Perth, the only city along the country’s western coastline with more than 1 million people, displays widespread urban infrastructure alongside the Swan and Canning rivers.
Published Dec 1, 2024
Orange, yellow, and white lights span Chicago at night, illuminating its gridded downtown and tracing its sinuous rivers and parks.
Published Nov 24, 2024
The exceptionally long high-mountain glacier in Central Asia ranges from snowy white near the mountain peaks to dusty brown at lower elevations.
Published Nov 17, 2024
Windswept sand formations known as star dunes, or pyramid dunes, are a distinctive feature of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa.
Published Nov 10, 2024
Photographed from orbit at sunset, the rays of light penetrating gaps in the clouds span vast distances.
Published Nov 3, 2024
The volcano’s central peak, an island within an island, stands above a reflective, water-filled caldera.
Published Oct 27, 2024
The growing network of channels and islands now spans more than half of the estuary that was once open to ships.
Published Oct 20, 2024
River channels old and new wind across a floodplain in Burma (Myanmar), mingling with areas of agriculture and aquaculture.
Published Oct 13, 2024
A “dirty snowball” from the distant icy cloud encircling our solar system passed by the Sun and Earth in autumn 2024.
Published Oct 12, 2024
An astronaut photographed the atmospheric phenomenon, associated with lightning, during a stormy night over North America.
Published Oct 6, 2024
Reflected sunlight highlights the water’s surface and flooded zones near Gee’s Bend.
Published Sep 30, 2024
Lights in Chile’s central city display an array of colors and densities, reflecting various land uses and differences between the region’s communes.
Published Sep 22, 2024
