During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by ...

Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective on our planet and can ... take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it. Earth from space In 2011, a ghostly ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet roughly one astronomical ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

It seems like wasted real estate,” Kane says ... In iterations where the additional planet didn’t completely throw Earth out into interstellar space, it often still changed the shape of ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

"It's the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface of Mars." ...

As a result, scientists are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated to solving our planet's mysteries. At the same time, telescopes are gazing outward ...

We can see the planet changing right in front of ... There are cameras that are way out in space taking images of the whole Earth. Then there are satellites that are taking images that are a ...

"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" ...

Learn all about the planets ... space and comets. How do astronauts get home? Tim Peake and Fran Scott explore how astronauts make the trip from the International Space Station back to Earth.