Nothing makes me feel more connected to the rest of the human race than seeing the Earth from space at night. National borders vanish, and rivers of light unite our 21st-century towns and cities ...

Earth rotates on its axis every 23.9 hours, defining day and night for surface dwellers ... scientists are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated ...

In a conversation about her Booker Prize-winning novel 'Orbital,' author Samantha Harvey delved into the process of depicting Earth from ... can be sighted from space at night.

With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide ... could one of those monster-sized Taurid objects collide with Earth? Could they wipe out a city, or worse?

With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies ... meteor swarm through space. As a physicist who researches the risk that comets and asteroids pose to the Earth, I'm aware that this ...