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The first television picture from space, taken 450 miles above Earth Image taken on April 1, 1960 by TIROS 1. This was the first television picture of Earth from space.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous ...
“The International Space Station soars above an aurora blanketing the Earth underneath a starry sky before orbiting into a sunrise 257 miles above Quebec, Canada, on October 30, 2024,” NASA ...
Starting as a swirling mixture of gas and dust, Earth now takes up 260 billion cubic miles in space. Millions of plant and animal species thrive on our rocky planet, although we may never know the ...
That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed astronomer Carl Sagan would write. “That’s us.
The Polaris Dawn mission reached new heights on Tuesday as It reached an orbit of 870 miles above the Earth's surface, the farthest humans have been away from the planet since the 1970s.
Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s ... An international team of scientists recently recovered a 1.7-mile-long ... which is located at 10,500 feet above sea ...
The approach is expected to happen at 7:27 p.m. ET, just 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface and well within the orbit of geosynchronous satellites.
NASA is conducting a crash test roughly 7 million miles from Earth. During the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) set for Monday, a spacecraft will collide with a 525-ft. wide asteroid called ...
SpaceX’s Crew-7 is preparing to depart the International Space Station (ISS) after a six-and-a-half-month stay aboard the orbital outpost some 250 miles above Earth. NASA will live-stream all of ...
Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution of ...
A house-sized asteroid, smaller than 2023 DZ2, entered Earth's atmosphere, burned up and exploded about 14 miles above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013. The Chelyabinsk asteroid ...