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On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
The second stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket captured an amazing view of Earth during the launch of the Intelsat 40e ...
Blue Origin's famed New Shepard launch vehicle is on the cusp of ferrying its next crew of celebrities and notable people to the edge of space, where its passengers will have a front-row seat of Earth ...
A Google Earth view of the planet has been shared widely over the last few days, due to the unusual angle it shows. The image, shared by the World of Engineering, shows our home looking like some sort ...
A Japanese spacecraft carrying the SLIM moon lander snaps a photo of Earth and the moon in September. Credit: JAXA / SLIM The race to land on the moon will bleed into 2024 as more national space ...
A cluster of sunspots 15 times the size of Earth rolled into view. These have been fizzing with activity and could send solar weather toward Earth as early as Saturday. Space weather is mostly ...
The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away ...
Image: An artist’s depiction of our world when the Earthshine measurements were taken, enhanced to show the “red edge” from vegetation. A distant astronomer on another planet would see the spectral ...
Google is no longer a young company, and many of its products have been in existence for over two decades. Its "not an April Fools joke" email service turned 21 earlier this year, and now, Google ...
Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard is composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule and is designed to be fully reusable. The New Shepard's crew capsule ...