Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

As the lander orbits Earth, it has been sending back stunning images, including one where our planet briefly eclipses the distant moon. Mission Progress and Lunar Plans Blue Ghost launched on 15 ...

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Read more about this volcano in “Nested Calderas of Zavaritskogo.” Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The January 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use ...

A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

The Google Earth image that went viral over the weekend was captured in November 2023. The ABC News visual verification team also tracked down satellite images as early as June 2023 to February ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander has snapped its first photos of its distant target ... and has captured beautiful "blue marble" views of Earth. The other moon lander that went up ...

A new image from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission shows the spacecraft’s first glimpse of the moon. Launched nearly two weeks ago, the spacecraft is headed to the moon where it aims to ...

About a week after launch, the spacecraft looked back on Earth during its second Earth-orbit burn, capturing the "Blue Marble" from where it came from ... Firefly shared new images of Earth's only ...