Black Marble Redraws Earth’s Nighttime Map, Says NASA
GREENBELT, Maryland, May 28, 2026, 08:00 EDT NASA’s latest Black Marble maps reveal a jump in Earth’s night lights between 2014 and 2022, but the story isn’t just about more brightness—patches of the planet faded even as others lit up, resulting in a nighttime landscape that’s anything but uniform. NASA and Space.com point to city expansion, electrification, shifting energy rules,
