Sunday, November 1st, 2026
Satellite observations and emissions modeling show an unusually severe 2026 fire season across New Guinea, where drought and widespread burning have produced extensive smoke and exceptionally high carbon emissions. NASA Earth Observatory reported that the Visible Infrared...
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
A false-color radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite offers an unusual view of Typhoon Surigae: not the familiar white spiral of clouds, but the rough ocean surface beneath the storm. The Sept. 28, 2026, image...
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) unveiled a domestically developed space probe that will travel approximately 5 billion kilometers as part of a mission to explore seven asteroids. Developed, assembled and tested in the UAE, the probe reached...
Monday, September 21st, 2026
Smoke from widespread fires blanketed parts of Indonesia in early September 2026 as drought created conditions for fires to spread through the country’s peatlands. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured extensive smoke over Borneo on Sept. 1, 2026, with...
Monday, September 7th, 2026
Satellite imagery captured the aftermath of a catastrophic flash flood that swept through northern Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026. The event began with a rapid slope failure associated with a glacier collapse on Langtang Lirung in Langtang...
Monday, August 24th, 2026
Hurricane Lala approached Hawaiʻi in mid-August 2026, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds and dangerous surf to portions of the island chain. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this image on...
Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Large tides transform the appearance of Roebuck Bay along the coast of Western Australia, exposing broad expanses of intertidal mudflats that support one of the Southern Hemisphere’s most important concentrations of migratory shorebirds. Located near Broome in...
Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
A Copernicus Sentinel-2 image acquired in June 2026 reveals a colorful agricultural landscape in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, where geometric fields contrast with salt lakes, coastal wetlands and the dark waters of the Southern Ocean. ...
Monday, July 13th, 2026
Satellite imagery captured during early July 2026 shows Super Typhoon Bavi rapidly strengthening as it tracked across the western Pacific toward the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam before continuing toward East Asia. High-resolution observations from NOAA-21's Visible...
Monday, June 29th, 2026
Satellite imagery collected during late June 2026 reveals widespread seasonal ice retreat across the Bering Sea, highlighting ongoing changes in one of the world's most dynamic Arctic and sub-Arctic marine environments. Researchers are using Earth-observation data to...
