A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Contributing Editor Korey Haynes has produced a stellar story, How we study our planet, exploring the way we use Earth-orbiting satellites to inform us about our home. The array of orbiting ...

Four space tourists are back on Earth after orbiting over the north and south poles. Their SpaceX capsule splashed down in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

told The Associated Press some people colloquially refer to the type of conjunction happening this weekend as a "Venus kiss," because of the planet's relatively close proximity to the Earth.

The camera turns to show the curving edge of our spherical planet, then hones in on the features of Earth's surface ... is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California ...

Geoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific Ocean ... internal structure of the planet. "That's our dilemma.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The first images of Earth's poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views ...

Two American astronauts who've been stuck in space since last year are finally back on planet Earth. The SpaceX capsule carrying Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with fellow NASA astronaut ...

Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean ... because the planet has changed so much,” she says. Iguanas may be particularly well-suited for ...