A breathtaking photo of Earth was taken by a safety camera aboard the U.S. Space ... which appears to be the southern regions ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

Pokémon Go was the biggest video game on the planet, breaking software download records and sending local news into hysterics ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern satellite records from 2001 to 2020, according to a recent study published ...

the words "help," "LAPD," and "federal" are seen written out with debris among dumpsters and trash on Google Earth and Google Maps. The word "trafico" is also written on the land, sparking ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...