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See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby on Nov. 21, 2022 ...
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 ...
One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets ...
A striking image, shared byNASA’s Earth Observatory, reveals two volcanic lakes in Nicaragua that appear to resemble a pair of eyes staring up into space. Situated on the Chiltepe Peninsula, these ...
The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away ...
A total lunar eclipse occurs when Earth comes between the sun and the moon, casting a huge neighbor over our nearest neighbor ...
For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...
The photobomber is a satellite — specifically, one of SpaceX 's Starlink internet satellites, which Maxar identified as spacecraft number 33828. The mirror effect comes from a trio of rainbow-colored ...
The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...