Early V-2 Photos of Earth V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

Coronal holes in the Sun continue to send solar wind toward Earth, increasing the chances of Northern Lights across the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

The $1.4 billion Euclid Space Telescope captured an Einstein Ring in one of its early ... the imagery. The ring sits in the galaxy NGC 6505, which is about 590 million light-years from Earth.

In essence, they mimicked the environmental swings thought to be common on the early Earth, including periods of moisture followed by arid conditions. Rather than producing disorganized reactions, the ...

How life's building blocks took shape on early Earth: The limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation Date: February 6, 2025 Source: Institute of Science Tokyo Summary: A recent study ...

A promising candidate for protocells is polyester microdroplets, which form through the simple polymerization of alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs), compounds believed to have accumulated on early Earth ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth ... intel in early March, would help ...

The Google Earth image that went viral over the weekend was captured in November 2023. The ABC News visual verification team also tracked down satellite images as early as June 2023 to February ...

Why Trust Us? A new study from scientists at Nagoya University in Japan analyzes how the Earth likely sported a green hue in its early days. Due to evolutionary pressures and the light spectrum ...