On Feb. 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 probe snapped a photo of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. The image shows our home planet as it truly is — a tiny, lonely outpost of ...

Cassini’s last image of Earth, taken on April 12, 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on the final chapter of its almost 20-year-long mission, scheduled ...

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space ...

This image of Earth, dubbed "Pale Blue Dot," is a part of the first "portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system ...

Earth is seen as a mote in an orange shaft of sunlight in this image taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990 from a vantage point 40 times further from the Sun that the Earth. ( Nasa ) ...

Here, its distant view of the Earth against dark space elicits the 1990 image taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from beyond Neptune, which shows Earth as a “pale blue dot.” Orion snaps a ...

Twenty years ago this week, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured a radical view of Earth. Shot from a distance of 4 billion miles, the "pale blue dot" image showed our planet as a tiny speck amid the ...

Voyager 1: Still traveling 1 million miles per day Launched in 1977 along with its sister craft Voyager 2, the twin craft are robotic space probes that are now the longest operating spacecraft in ...