Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

The moon’s shadow, as seen from the International Space Station, passes over central Asia during a 2020 total solar eclipse. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Oblique views of Earth as seen from space can be particularly dramatic, as this next image also demonstrates: Hurricane Ian, as seen by the GOES-18 satellite on Sept. 28, 2022 just after it made ...

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

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 ...

It's possible to see the Three Gorges Dam from space, as it's so big. (Image credit: Xiaoyang Liu via Getty Images) In fact, there are a number of human-made structures that can be seen from space.

Scientists often use coronagraphs to study visible light from the corona, revealing dynamic features, such as solar storms, that shape the weather in space, potentially impacting Earth and beyond.

Dean chats with Mark Brown a former Air Force pilot astronaut and now an aerospace consultant to companies going above and beyond.Send us your thoughts at [email protected] or post them on social ...

As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s impossible to forget just how much the sun ...

Plus, since giant ejections from the sun can sometimes send huge waves of particles towards Earth, what's called space weather, an unnerving prospect looms: we could see much more disruption to ...

A total solar eclipse, in theory, would be one of the best times for space-borne astronauts to distinctly observe the sun’s outer atmosphere, when the moon naturally blocks out the rest of the star.