A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

In 1990, the Voyager spacecraft turned its cameras back toward Earth, capturing the iconic Pale Blue Dot. From billions of ...

Have you ever wondered what the Earth looks like from the Moon? Or what the Earth and Moon looks like through the rigs of Saturn, or billions of miles away from the edge of the Solar System? Well, now ...

Earth is as old as the rest as the solar system, but it wasn't always as it is now, this is particularly true of the brief ...

Taken from about one and a half billion kilometers away, Earth's latest long-range selfie also features one of the most dramatic events ever captured on film: a Saturnian total eclipse. Share on ...

Rather than embracing escapist fantasies of colonizing space, humankind needs to commit itself to saving the planet, expert says Every day seems to bring news of multiplying ecological disasters—fires ...

When we look at Earth from space today, we see a pale blue dot—a planet dominated by vast oceans that shimmer under the sunlight. But what if our oceans weren't always blue? According to recent ...

Once more the time rolls round to send you the traditional Solstice Greetings. I am frankly dumfounded to realize that since I arrived on this planet the earth has gone the whole way around the sun ...