NOAA's new satellite will capture the sunlit face of Earth in its entirety -- the first time this has happened since the Galileo mission to Jupiter in the 1990s. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

For the first time in history, scientists have captured clear footage of the Earth’s surface physically splitting during a powerful earthquake. The dramatic event, recorded by high-speed cameras and ...

A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for one of the most important astronomical missions in recent times. Among them ...

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ST. LOUIS – If your eye was on the sky early Wednesday morning in St. Louis, chances are you caught a meteor flying across. At 5:22 a.m. a camera on the Earth Cam network located at the Malcolm Martin ...

Named after an ancient Egyptian mythological demon, Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of almost three football fields (270m), will make its close approach to Earth this week.