An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

These are a result of seawater killing coastal trees. NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. "The closer a forest is to sea level ...

The recent success of NASA's laser communication test represents a paradigm shift in space technology. Traditionally, space ...

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like ...

"Whether this impact was from a micrometeoroid or a piece of space debris, the collision highlights the need for responsible ...

Meanwhile on Earth is beautiful, but alienating.

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The stock market doesn't like uncertainty. That is a silly expression, because there is always uncertainty, which would mean the stock market is never in a likable mood. Judging by the past two years ...

Because of this rapid movement, when the sun sets on the following (Tuesday) evening, the configuration between Venus and the moon will have radically changed. In fact, the moon – whose illuminated ...

The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from ... generating about half of all rainfall over land. Disruptions to the water cycle ...