NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds ...

For more on the satellites that keep their eyes on Earth, visit NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. This section contains a cloud gallery with 260 beautiful images of a range of 10 cloud ...

The Floating Earth is a 10m (33ft) wide model of the globe and is now on display at Queen’s Valley. It's made up of NASA images of the earth taken from space and has been created by artist Luke ...

Clouds in Antarctica. Our weather is influenced by many factors, at ground level (such as mountains and human activity), ...

according to NASA's Earth Observatory. In the astronaut photo, Kol'tsevoye Lake looks as if it has been covered by low-lying clouds sitting at the bottom of the caldera. However, there are no ...

What attracted Globe editors to this image is the dominant sky, where a forceful movement toward the centre of the picture is created by two converging diagonals, representing banks of clouds.