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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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NASA's NPP satellite gets a complete view of our planet every day.
NASA's Dawn mission currently orbiting Vesta has revealed signs of differentiation - a process where dense materials sink to the center and less dense rise to the surface. This is a characteristic of a terrestrial planets such as our own.
This partial eclipse was the first of four to occur in 2011 and it’s rare to see so many within the same year.
The unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft landed on November 17 in China, marking its successful separation and return to Earth from the Tiangong-1 space station. This animated look shows the dock, separation and landing.
A time-lapse video that strings together photographs taken by space station astronauts shows Earth in all its glory.
11 days after its launch, NASA's NPP satellite sends back its first science data.
A look at the colors of Mars and why the surface looks red from Earth. The reality is that there are a variety colors on the surface of the Red Planet, including butterscotch, gold, even some green and more.
The space rock apparently formed out of the same stuff that became Earth, Venus and Mercury.
Properties of asteroid Lutetia have been found to be similar to the original material that formed the Earth. The animation depicts what is thought to have caused its drastic change in orbit to now reside in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
There is absolutely no chance of a giant solar flare destroying life on Earth in 2012, NASA scientist C. Alex Young says.
John Chumack (www.galacticimages.com) captured these images of the space rock's Earth fly-by in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The asteroid was about 201,700 miles away and was passing between the Moon and Earth.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will launch a probe to sample asteroid 1999 RQ36 in 2016.
Night views from the ISS have never looked so good.
Japan Space Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa recorded lightning, auroras and the islands of Japan at night during more than 30 hours of Earth observation through windows of the International Space Station.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 will fly an estimated 201,700 miles from Earth at its closest point (Nov. 8th & 9th). Radio antennas pointed towards the 1300-foot-wide space rock will provide scientists with imagery resolution of up to 7 feet per pixel.
Crack suggests iceberg about to break off.
NPP carries five science instruments, including four new state-of-the-art sensors in this amazing space wallpaper.
NASA's NPP satellite soared into the predawn California sky aboard a Delta 2 rocket.
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