The view of Earth to the left takes the seconds ... giving people a little glimpse of the weirdness of life in space. Via Giphy Another Kelly gif shows him popping an effervescent tab into a ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

Earth from space A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos reported on Saturday (May 10): "The spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...

The discovery of chorus waves happened by accident—and not in space but on Earth—when World War I radio operators overheard them emanating from thunderstorms. “People were listening for ...

Showers of charged particles from space can spark intense lightning. There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around ...