NASA astronauts on the ISS share images of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It can be hard to see from Earth, but the view ...

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 ...

This 2012 satellite photo shows a series of giant windblown ridges, known as yardangs, and a group of towering sand dunes at ...

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?

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 ...

A Chinese company has announced ambitious plans to put a "fake moon" into space to brighten the night sky ... reflecting sunlight back to Earth, according to China Daily. It would orbit 500km ...

We’ve all seen beautiful images of the Earth from space, some photographed by astronauts and others collected remotely by orbiting satellites. So why doesn’t our planet look round when we’re ...

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 ...