A vast, magnetically tangled sunspot has rotated into direct view of Earth, raising the prospect of powerful solar eruptions ...

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 probe flew 3,438 kilometres above Earth during its swing. It moved closer than several high-orbit satellites circling the ...

A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not expect. A satellite designed to track the height of the ocean’s surface ...

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 photograph has renewed interest in these ghostly lights, which appear for just milliseconds and are usually hidden from ...

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 ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to honor and respect our precious planetary home and its immeasurable beauty, ...

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 ...