The space agency spent years collecting and analysing satellite images of Earth and put together the clearest yet composite view of Earth's 'night lights'. The maps reveal how human settlements ...

Looking at Earth at night from space turns the planet’s extremely varied and complex surface into a much simpler view of light and dark. The ghostly outlines of continents, laced with webs of ...

This is the most accurate, highest resolution true color night image of planet Earth to date. These images are truly extraordinary, "an unprecedented new ...

Researchers from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, have put together the clearest ever global view of Earth at night, as seen from satellites in space.

Trying to add further realism to the conditions of the Earth, I like to see where the night and day side of the Earth is at the moment. Someone recently posted a new attempt at showing the Earth ...

This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. City Lights 2012 - Flat map view (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory.) ...

Nothing makes me feel more connected to the rest of the human race than seeing the Earth from space at night. National borders vanish, and rivers of light unite our towns and cities into a single ...

Google Maps lets you play around with Earth as a big blue marble, but now night owls can get a good look at our planet as it appears at night: the black marble.

A new Japanese high-definition video camera on the International Space Station is offering a more accurate picture of what the Earth looks like from space at night time, astronauts say.

The night-view of our world. I pick a picture of the world, patched up together from various night shots by satellite that zeroes in on areas of earth as it revolves around the sun.

A new layer of maps for Google Earth was made available, called the Black Marble: a composite view of Earth’s lights taken by a Suomi National Polar Orbiting (SNPO) Satellite from 824 km above. The ...

These gorgeous photos of Earth from space, taken by astronauts in orbit, show our planet's cities aglow at night from above.