Thirty-six rising high school seniors are spending five weeks studying near-Earth asteroids using the telescopes at the ...

More than 60 student-requested images were taken by the Ebb spacecraft from March 15 to 17, and were sent to Earth on March 20, NASA officials said in a statement. Get the Space.com Newsletter ...

At the Potomac School in McLean, Va., this past school year, 13 seventh- and eighth-graders signed up for a biweekly science elective that proposed this challenge, reports the Washington Post: Take a ...

Three enterprising MIT students have successfully launched and retrieved a digital camera in order to snap photos of the earth from the upper atmosphere -- and they did it all for under $150.

This infrared photo, taken from 2.2 million miles away, reveals the vast distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000 miles, or about 30 diameters of Earth stacked together.

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