Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each ...

People are freaking out after seeing planet Earth from an especially unusual angle, with one complaining: 'This is scary'.

A derelict Soviet-era spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 is set to hurtle back toward Earth after more than five decades in orbit ...

SPHEREx, which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer, is a space telescope with a ambitious goal: to map the entire sky in ...

The Aquarids meteor shower is set to peak this week. Everyone in the U.S. will have a chance to catch a glimpse.

The SPHEREx mission will map the universe in both optical and near-infrared light. In the month since arriving at its orbit ...

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

Mars starts May not far from the Beehive star cluster, Venus is unmistakable in the predawn sky, and Mercury looks best early ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

"This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and space livestreaming ... (You can watch this view, live-streamed in high-resolution 4K video, online. 4K refers to a ...

A satellite conceived at the University of Sheffield and developed by British academics and engineers is set to become the first in the world to measure the condition of the Earth's forests from ...

This price spike is often attributed to China halting rare earth exports to Japan amidst a territorial dispute, but in reality the rally had started months prior and was accelerated by a multitude ...