In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

The cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, had eluded researchers because it contains very little carbon monoxide ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a rare partial solar eclipse in April, unobservable from Earth, where the moon ...

Space exploration is meant to create a positive future. The legacy of Apollo, and of our robot explorers in the solar system ...

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The story of William Anders' iconic Earthrise image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

Earth Day Network has fulfilled the prophecy. The photo of mountains posted above is used by multiple Bureau of Land Management websites to promote BLM’s programs for filling up public lands with ...

NASA studies Earth as part of its mission. Our satellites and instruments #PictureEarth daily. Some take visible light photos, much like your camera. Others peer into the infrared, microwave, ...

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging the idea that these ancient crustal structures are immovable. Seismic ...