The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...

The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA EPIC Team | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta ...

There are probably about 50,000 pieces of space junk the size of a softball or larger floating near Earth, Boley said. When considering objects between a centimeter or half a millimeter ...

When we think about weather, we often imagine rain, sunshine, hurricanes, and blizzards. However, weather isn’t confined to ...

The ESA estimates that the asteroid is between 40 metres and 100 metres wide. That would potentially make the space rock’s width similar to the height of Big Ben in London, which is 96 metres tall.

The mission, referred to as IM-2 or PRIME-1 ... asteroid to practice thwarting a space rock, should a hazardous one ever be on a collision course with Earth. The European Space Agency is providing ...

Several missions under contracts with NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program are planned for this year.

Ten years before general relativity, Einstein came up with special relativity, which explained the relationship between space and time ... This is why the Earth goes around the Sun in a ...

May I just point out that I'm between cases at the moment ... (chuckles) I've murdered no one! Why on Earth would I hire you if I were the murderer? Yes, you did hire me, after you informed ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

Scientists used aircraft and satellites to track biodiversity, helping improve conservation and space research.

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...