The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

The Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...

It’s the iconic “Earthrise” photo. Of course, this isn’t one of 2022’s images of Earth from space that I’m showcasing below. But I thought I should start with it — for context.

The umbrella-shaped antenna, built by US space firm L3Harris, catches the returning signals and redirects them to the ...

A breathtaking photo of Earth was taken by a safety camera aboard the U.S. Space Force's mysterious space plane as it orbitted the planet. The image features a rare horizon image of Earth ...

The first images of Earth, though low-resolution and ghostly, arrived at a time when space and defense technology was rapidly advancing. Here are the first images ever taken of our humble planet.

Earth from space A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.

The United States Space Force shared a never-before-seen glimpse into its notably secretive X-37B space plane in orbit. The photo showed the space plane and Earth.

Because the moon is tidally locked with Earth, one day on the moon — sunrise to sunset — lasts 14.5 Earth days. That's half the time it takes for the moon to orbit Earth.

Asteroids are space rocks that can range in size from dust particles to over 500 miles in diameter. There are several small groups of them in or near Earth’s solar orbit, including the Apollo ...