Earth Matters

An analysis of Landsat imagery shows big colonies of penguins on the Danger Islands are declining.

Researchers analyzed more than 40,000 fires between 1950 to 2017 to learn how wildfire frequency, size, and location has changed. Here's what they learned.

Your challenge is to tell us what we are looking at and why it is interesting.

It is sometimes overlooked that Plymouth, Massachusetts, was not the first stop—nor the intended destination—of the Pilgrims.

Putting low-cost air quality sensors in the hands of citizen scientists complement satellite observations of air quality during wildfires.

A new edition of The Earth Observer, a bi-monthly publication that covers the nuts-and-bolts of NASA’s Earth Observing System, is out.