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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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Astronauts on the International Space Station spotted wildfires raging in Texas.
NASA's NPP mission will carry a Visible/Infrared Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) that will take a close up look at hurricanes, forest fires, volcanoes, ocean color and more, giving scientists the ability to create more accurate climate models.
This space wallpaper of the Earth's crest over the lunar horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission.
NASA's Juno spacecraft to Jupiter spotted Earth and the moon from about 6 million miles away.
NASA astronaut Mike Fossum has seen a lot of hurricanes, and they're all scary.
When NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped a view of Earth from the moon 45 years ago, it put the world in perspective.
Pretty soon, you may be able to see the entire Earth from space, live in HD.
A never before seen look at the path of a coronal mass ejection from the solar surface to Earth grabbed by NASA's twin Sun-studying satellites, letting scientists measure the expanding super-hot gas shot out by solar eruptions.
Satellite data shows how ice moves from the interior of the Antarctic continent to the coasts. This color-coded animation shows vast movement on geologic time scales.
Earth's moon may be unique throughout the universe.
A new study is being touted as the death knell for the existence of global warming. Not so fast, climate researchers say.
Over a century and a half of Earthly events have transpired during one Neptune orbit around the sun. Watch where Neptune was located during some of humanity's most important events since 1846.
Canadian space tourist Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil, published a book called "Gaia" of photos of the Earth he took while visiting the International Space Station.
Europe's Giotto mission studied Halley's comet and discovered that it's composed of organics and silicates and its "snowy" dust particles may have contributed to life on our planet. The Rosetta mission will continue the research of comets.
A private space tourist has published a new book of gorgeous photos of Earth from space.
What if dinosaurs and Neanderthals had not gone extinct? What if the sun was twice as large? How 10 key moments in history could change the present.
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere will officially arrive on Tuesday (June 21).
Venus is our closest neighbor, but we know very little about how it became the hellish planet it is today.
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