Blue Planet

These high-res time-lapse sequences captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station give us a beautiful and clear view of some well-known coastlines and countries around the world. Get a good look at England, France, Italy, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, the island of Crete, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, and more

Humans have created thousands of settlements, and we are lucky enough to be able to see some of them from the eyes of ISS astronauts. These images are incredibly difficult to take from a spacecraft traveling along at almost 28,000 kilometers per hour.

Earth's landmasses were not always what they are today. Continents formed as Earth's crustal plates shifted and collided over long periods of time. This video shows how today's continents are thought to have evolved over the last 600 million years, and where they'll end up in the next 100 million years.

Look closely and see a meteor shower captured in this series of timelapse shots. On 14--16 December 2012, the Geminid meteor shower made a spectacular appearance over ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. As the meteors showered down over the site, photographer Gianluca Lombardi spent over 40 hours recording it.

Gorgeous Earth lit up with city lights, thunderstorms, and colorful aurorae.

An intimate tour of Earth's most impressive landscapes captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA's astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.

These incredible new images of Earth at night captured by the NASA-NOAA NPP satellite are a counterpart to the iconic Blue Marble images. From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Experience some of the most striking Earth images ever made... from Landsat.

A "Ghost Light" is an unexplained luminescent phenomena. That's how aliens might see Earth if they arrived with no awareness of its civilizations, atmosphere and climate, and magnetic field.

Narrated by William Shatner. The Space Shuttle was the most complex machine ever built, designed to bring humans to and from space and eventually construct the next stop on the road to space exploration. From NASA.

The historic eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano in 1959. Here's Nature red in tooth and claw, a most violent and beautiful sight to behold. Music by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com.

Experience some of the most astonishingly beautiful images captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The gentle curvature of mother Earth frames the glimmering lights of cities, dancing aurorae, and the universe zipping around a planet in motion.

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been catching brief outbursts of high-energy light that are mysteriously produced above thunderstorms.