This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.

A 2012 satellite photo captured a patch of snow-covered sea ice with an uncannily similar shape to badges pinned on the uniforms of Starfleet officers in the "Star Trek" franchise.

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say ...

Back to Article List Best images of Earth as seen from space in 2022 Compelling images captured from orbit revealed our planet in all its beauty and fury during the year just gone by.

Space.com highlighted Terra's imagery of ... A study published in Nature's Communications Earth & Environment in July 2024 examined the impact of volatility in the Arctic on the duration of the ...

View of Earth as seen by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski inside the seven-windowed cupola, the ...

What does lightning look like from space? Astronauts on space station share stunning photos The latest images of sky-splitting lightning came courtesy of two NASA astronauts residing aboard the ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return from his fourth trip to space on Saturday night. Here are some of his most stunning photos of the cosmos.

Moon-Rice project develops super-dwarf, protein-rich rice varieties for space missions and extreme Earth environments.

The Fram2 mission, SpaceX's groundbreaking private spaceflight to polar orbit, entered its third day on April 3, with its crew continuing their historic journey over Earth's poles.

SpaceX brought back to Earth on Friday the four crew members of the private polar Fram2 mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night.