4K Space Odyssey

Impressionistic views of the Earth and Sun reveal the heat of hot plasma shimmering against the blues and greens of a living planet.

With the population expansively growing, the earth is witnessing catastrophic blazes, harrowing droughts and devastating deforestation.

Heat generated in the Sun's core is released in towers of hot, electrified gas, called plasma, that break the surface and race toward Earth.

Astonishing images captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Reveling in some of the highest-resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Exploring a strand in contemporary astronomy that aims to map the universe on larger scales, going all the way back to the beginning of time.

A series of computer simulations and satellite data visualizations that capture earth's environmental systems.

New maps of Jupiter showing the continuing changes in its famous Great Red Spot and other features.

Planetary scientists suspect that ancient Mars had a much warmer, wetter environment than it presently does.

Inspired by John Milton's description of the galaxy.

Finding out what causes the sun to erupt; a supercomputer simulation recreates the flow of plasma deep inside the Sun.

At the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Sun is a seething maelstrom of coronal mass ejections and more.

Brimming with experiments and life support systems, the International Space Station flies around the Earth every 92 minutes and 39 seconds.

Witnessing the Super Blood Moon eclipse of 2015, a rare alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth.

Scientists are out flying over Greenland, drilling into its ice, and monitoring it from space; they see it as a bellwether of a future Earth.