Left: A large boulder moved by the Manakamana landslide; Top right: A panoramic view of the same landslide, which can be seen on the left side of the picture; Bottom right: A top-down view of the ...

On May 28, 2025, the peaceful town of Blatten, Switzerland, was even more quiet than usual. Almost all of the 300 residents had been evacuated due to local geologists and glaciologists fearing the ...

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The August 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, ...

Update on August 19, 2025: This Landsat 8 image shows Múlajökull, a surge-type piedmont glacier in central Iceland bordered by colorful lakes. Congratulations to Kim Jack for being the first reader to ...

Update: This Landsat 9 image shows an island group and its surrounding waters off mainland Mozambique. Congratulations to Mark for being the first reader to identify the location and to Yaakov ...

Update on May 27, 2025: This springtime Landsat image shows snow-covered tundra streaked with wind-blown sediment near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States. Congratulations to ...

Update: This Landsat image shows dried lakes on the Tibetan plateau in 1994. Congratulations to David Alegre and James Varghese for being the first readers to identify the location. Read more about ...

On February 6, 2025, after years of preparation and four months of intense planning, an aircraft with an advanced NASA instrument took off for the AVUELO campaign’s first survey in the tropics, while ...

Satellite images of Earth at night have been a curiosity for the public and a tool of fundamental research for at least 25 years. They have provided a broad, beautiful picture, showing how humans have ...

At a weekend science camp in the remote village of Bautista, Philippines, the faces of students at Coloscaoyan National High School quickly changed from skepticism to excitement when they realized ...

After our adventures in Quebec and Greenland, it was now time for our last stop in this intense season of fieldwork. This time we were heading to the Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT).