Artemis, NASA and Earth
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On April 6, 2026, shortly before Earth slid behind the Moon from the perspective of Orion, and the spacecraft lost radio signal with mission control for 40 minutes, the Artemis II crew captured this stunning image of Earth setting over the lunar surface.
Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried thousands of kilometers underground. Using a massive global dataset of seismic waves,
How much do you know about our planet? Here are the amazing, odd and downright cool Earth facts scientists learned in the last year.
NASA’s “Your Name in Landsat” lets users see their names formed by real Earth landscapes using 50 years of satellite data. Know it's working and how Landsat program is monitoring changes on Earth.
Today is Earth Day, a time to think about how to protect the planet that all of us share. Each year on April 22, Earth Day highlights environmental challenges and encourages communities to take action.
Ice cores, tree rings, and satellite data converge on a striking truth: Earth’s rapid changes today are unlike anything seen in human history. When most people hear the term Earth science, they think of fossils tucked into stone, or perhaps the study of ...
Science is essential. But the story of how we practice it has expanded over the decades to be more connected to real-world decisions and outcomes.
The study of Earth science isn’t just for students who are interested in how our planet works. It’s also for those who are passionate about addressing urgent global challenges such as climate change, resource conservation and environmental sustainability.
Artemis II’s journey around the moon, scheduled to conclude on Friday, has delivered stunning new images of our home world taken from space. Those pictures remind us that Earth has changed immensely since the last time astronauts went near the moon in 1972.