A vast, magnetically tangled sunspot has rotated into direct view of Earth, raising the prospect of powerful solar eruptions ...
It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just ...
To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...
The probe flew 3,438 kilometres above Earth during its swing. It moved closer than several high-orbit satellites circling the ...
When a powerful earthquake shook the far eastern edge of Russia in late July, it set off more than a huge movement of the ...
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...
A large Hyperwall—a giant video screen used to display NASA’s Earth Information Center data—will be the centerpiece of “NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History.” ...
Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...
To catch the Geminids peak, look to the eastern sky all evening on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The meteors will appear near the ...
An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...
Humanity's first look at Earth from the moon didn't come until Aug. 23, 1966, when this grainy, black-and-white image showed our planet as a crescent above the lunar horizon, appearing to rise as the ...