The whole crew was awestruck by the contrast between the ugly, gray lunar horizon and the view of the Earth hovering beautiful, lonely and fragile against the blackness of space. They recognized ...

A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NASA releases new global map of Earth seen at night 02:29. NEW YORK --For the first time since 2012, NASA has released a global map of Earth at night -- and the results are breathtaking.NASA has ...

It’s the iconic “Earthrise” photo. Of course, this isn’t one of 2022’s images of Earth from space that I’m showcasing below. But I thought I should start with it — for context.

It’s an oft-told story: The boom of space startups today can be traced to dramatically lowered cost in launch and satellite manufacturing over the past 10 years. But Array Labs, a two-year-old ...

Mapping the seafloor isn't the SWOT mission's primary purpose. Launched in December 2022, the satellite measures the height of water on nearly all of Earth's surface, including the ocean, lakes ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions.

The "Blue Marble" is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972 as the Apollo 17 crew made its way to the moon. It's a detailed image of our planet, against the inky black void of space. Africa ...

The final image captured by the recently decommissioned Landsat 7 satellite shows how "Sin City" has nearly doubled in size ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open “NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History”—a 2,000-square-foot exhibition showcasing the dynamic forces ...