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A digital camera on the Blue Ghost lander looked back at Earth and captured this ethereal image.
Satellites gathered striking views of the Moon’s shadow from above as observers on the ground were awed by the Sun’s…
As the Moon crossed between the Sun and Earth during the 2023 annular eclipse, its shadow darkened skies across the…
A spacecraft designed to explore asteroids near Jupiter also looked back at Earth, acquiring distant views of our Moon and…
Fifty years after Apollo 17 astronauts photographed the iconic âblue marbleâ image, cameras in space have again captured distant views…
Two spacecraft designed to study the Sun also got some recent peeks at Earth and other planets.
Satellites are shedding new light on the invisible processes and rhythms at play at the intersection between Earth and space.
When the Apollo 11 astronauts left the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969, they brought home samples of…
These iconic photos are not new, but their message never gets old.
