February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

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As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight ... with the full moon its most dazzling stage. Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and joined the team in 2001. He covers skywatching ...

The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...

Tokyo-based startup ArkEdge Space claims it has snapped what is “probably” the highest quality images of Earth taken by a ...

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The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.

A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Mars Adventure by Brend ...

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit shared his stunning photographs from his view miles above the Earth on the International Space ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular ...

Geoscientists conducted ... Earth Scientists Study Sikkim Flood in India to Help Others Prepare for Similar Disasters Jan. 30, 2025 — Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced ...