Earlier this month, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its newest Earth-observation satellite, known as Copernicus ...

Early V-2 Photos of Earth V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.

Earth from space A pair of 2015 astronaut photos taken just minutes apart shows the eye of tropical cyclone Bansi illuminated by two lightning strikes as the storm raged in the Indian Ocean off ...

Here's why — Europe's JUICE probe snaps hi-res pics of Earth and the moon on its way to Jupiter (photos) — Why will it take Europe's JUICE spacecraft 8 years to get to Jupiter? The new images from ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station, which has been in orbit for decades, have collected a stunning array of images ...

But as the spacecraft flew within a few thousand miles of the Earth’s surface, it was able to use its instruments to snap pictures of both the Earth and the moon. The Juice spacecraft’s main ...

The private Polaris Dawn crew notched another milestone on Thursday (Sept. 12), beaming photos home using SpaceX's Starlink ...

See the most spectacular photos of the Sept. 17, 2024, full harvest supermoon and partial lunar eclipse from around the world ...

The high-resolution science camera on the JUICE probe, which is ultimately headed to Jupiter, was busy snapping images of craters on the moon and clouds in Earth's atmosphere as the spacecraft ...

ESA’s Juice mission takes new ‘breathtaking’ images of the moon (Esa/Juice/JMC) First it used the moon’s gravity, and then on Tuesday night it will use the Earth’s, as a natural brake ...

A spacecraft that launched in April 2023 will fly across Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean tonight conducted the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby—and immediately sent back images of the moon.