Since the first pictures of Earth were taken from space, amazing Earth photos have been sent back, ... This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, 2012.

The time-lapse footage was captured by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has posted his first time-lapse ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous ...

A startup company that hopes to provide real-time video streaming of Earth from space has announced it will launch its first satellite in 2021, with four further satellites set to launch in 2022 ...

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

The only way to see the curve of the Earth is to fly more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) above its surface. This is because the length of the horizon that we see depends on how high we are above ...

How Earth sheds heat into space Date: September 24, 2018 ... In the end, the researchers observed that as Earth's surface temperature gets hotter, it essentially wants to shed more heat into space.

With multiple nations and private companies now setting their sights on missions to the moon, experts say cislunar space — the area between Earth and the moon — could become strategically ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized. The ...

Space junk typically circles the planet in low Earth orbit, or within 1,200 miles of Earth's surface. Orbits are classified in three basic categories: High : Most weather and communications ...

Once the space junk had safely flown by, CryoSat-2 took a few days to get back into its normal orbit, says Vitali Braun, a space-debris engineer with ESA. But the alerts didn’t stop coming.