Everyone knows what planet Earth looks like… right? But from the earliest black-and-white photos returned by high-altitude rockets to the daily flow of snapshots taken by astronauts on the ISS ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

Earth’s oceans sparked life—but on distant moons and exoplanets, alien seas may be doing the same. Here’s what they might look like, and why they matter.

Library of Congress. These days, we have a lot of images of Earth from space. Which is awesome. But before we went to space, we had some ideas about what Earth might look like, too.

The 21st century’s longest lunar eclipse has passed, eclipse doomsday fever has subsided, and all that’s left are the memories and pictures, which you can ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a new study, researchers predict what an alien "Earth" could really look like, and how ...

STEREO-B was on the far side of the Sun from the Earth, at about a 150 to 160 degree angle from the Earth-Sun line. Puffs of solar wind and from a CME are visible in a video made from the same ...

When we look at stars in the night sky, we’re actually looking back in time. Since it takes a while for light to cross the vast emptiness of the universe—even at a blistering 186,000 miles per ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson recently called out flat-earthers in one tweet: It's not just lunar eclipses that would look different if Earth were actually flat. Sports, plants, and even the oceans would be ...

- So what will the earth actually look like if we reach these tipping points? Well, it's pretty dramatic. With melting eyes from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, ...

And furthermore, Earth would really would look like the "double planet" that science writers often proclaim it to be, for as seen from Venus, our moon shines like a yellowish-white star of ...

It's hard to imagine what life would look like if we were rotating around some star other than the sun. So the Russian Federal Space Agency imagined for us. And it looks awesome. The video above ...