A meteorite has been captured lighting up skies over Western Australia on “as a fist-sized chunk of space rock slammed” into ...

NASA has confirmed the asteroid is on a set path. It measures about 130 feet in total width. It will fly past Earth on August ...

Viewed from space, Earth at night tells endless stories. Using satellite data, we can track population growth, natural disaster damage, cultural celebrations, and even space weather.

Learn how Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) allows satellites to see through clouds and darkness, monitoring Earth's changes day ...

NASA and India plan to deploy a satellite that will map the Earth down to a centimeter after a launch on Wednesday from the ...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

Is Venezuela darker at night than rest of South America, as meme claims? Neither Venezuela's borders nor its "socialism" are distinctly visible from space.

A meteor is a broken fragment of rock from space, such as debris from an asteroid collision, that enters Earth's atmosphere. They are typically visible at night as they make fast-moving streaks ...

Earth just had one of its shortest days on record, and it's not alone. Our planet is spinning faster, with two more shorter-than-usual days ahead.

There's plenty to see in the night sky in August 2025, ranging from planetary conjunctions to spotting the Dumbbell Nebula.

The map from 2016 was not an aberration, either. A NASA timeline of the Earth at night between 2012 and 2023 shows that Venezuela has never been distinguishably visible when viewed from space at ...

Unlike most of Earth's glaciers, which are rapidly losing their ice as a result of climate change, the Karakoram glaciers have expanded slightly in volume over recent decades.