Viewers of a certain age (including my own) may remember the children's TV show Big Blue Marble—reminiscent of the photograph of our water world taken by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 (top).I ...

This new 'blue marble' Earth image was taken to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Earth Day. ... and Southern Ocean (bottom) fill in the rest and remind us that it is all really one ocean.

The first time I met marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, he gave me a blue marble. As I wrote in my 2011 Outside story about him, it was sort of awkward. “Hold it at arm’s length,” he’d ...

SpaceX recently shared some stunning footage captured from the second stage of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. The clip (below) shows Earth from thousands of miles away, with ocean, land, and cloud ...

Beginning in May of next year, Blue Marble Private says it will offer a chance for nine travelers to dive some 4,000 meters below the surface of the ocean to see the famous wreck.

With the 50-year anniversary of the iconic Blue Marble photo, the MPI-M team decided to test the model by recreating the image using weather data from 1972 (Opens in a new window).