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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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Covering part of the Eastern Mediterranean in this cool space wallpaper is this Envisat image, which is dominated by the island of Cyprus. The capital and largest city, Nicosia, is located near the centre of the image.
The superstorm’s residual clouds hung over the Northeast and Canada on Friday.
The private cargo capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean after a resupply mission to the International Space Station on October 28th, 2012.
The cargo capsule is on its way back to Earth as it departed the International Space Station on October 28th, 2012.
Storms can exist on any planet with an atmosphere, even the sun.
The rocky, metallic worlds of the inner solar system look quite different from those of the outer solar system, one theory supposes they formed in much the same way. However, a competing theory suggests they may have formed from different components.
See photos of the giant "Frankenstorm" Hurricane Sandy that threatens the U.S. East Coast in late October 2012.
Satellite photos show massive crack widens in Pine Island Glacier.
Reversal happened in less than a thousand years.
See how different types of solar flares stack up in this SPACE.com infographic.
An island of ice half the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier this past summer. Called 'calving', this is the second time in three years a piece of ice this large as broken off the glacier.
Newfound alien planet may be Earth-size, but probably can't host life.
This space wallpaper acquired on Jan. 4, 2012 by the Pleiades satellite shows part of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Climate models make correct predictions on the Red Planet
Thousands of pictures have been stitched together to make this movie.
The Moon likely formed 4.5 Billion years ago as a Mars-sized body smashed into Earth (so compositions are similar). Lunar tidal forces encouraged life to flourish in the oceans. The Moon absorbed many asteroid impacts that threatened Earth's life.
In this space wallpaper, an Envisat image shows us a very rare, cloud-free view of Iceland. This image was acquired on July 21, 2010.
The cold front could bring freezing temperatures.
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