A meme authentically shows a satellite image of South America where Venezuela stands out as the only country without any ...

New global maps of Earth at night provide the clearest-ever composite view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet. The NASA team is also now automating nighttime imagery processing ...

A new study maps out areas of the ocean most affected by light pollution, and shows that up to 1.9 million km2 of the world’s coastal waters are being exposed to biologically significant levels ...

Last month, NASA released two global maps of the Earth at night—one taken in 2016, the other a revised version of a 2012 map.The satellite images showed our planet twinkling under the night sky ...

In early April, NASA released a global map of night lights in 2016 based on satellite observations. It also released an updated version of the 2012 night light map.