Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance of our moon

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A Soyruz rocket launched NASA's Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts into space for what will be a year-long mission aboard the International Space Station. It is NASA's first-of-its-kind study of identical twins to learn more about how long-term spaceflight affects the human body — by sending one

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Is...

The robot lander Philae has sent back to Earth the first image taken on the surface of a comet more than 500 million kilometers away.

A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu is expected to slam into Earth's atmosphere at a blistering 27,650 mph on Sunday and then parachute down to the ground. NASA senior scientist Amy Simon joined CBS News to discuss the purpose ...

Launched nearly 28 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our understanding of the cosmos, allowing us to calculate the age of the universe and the rate at which it is expanding. Hubble has allow us to peer back to almost the origins of the universe, to locations more than 13.4 billion li...

How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there. Lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy. Where they prey on stars. Or swallow planets whole....

NASA reported that an asteroid is headed toward Earth one day before U.S. Election Day 2020. Although the chances of an impact are less than 1 percent. Scientists labeled the asteroid 2018VP1, and data reveals its diameter is 0.002 kilometers, or about 6.5 feet. The celestial object was first disco...

Scott Kelly and his twin brother, Mark Kelly—also an astronaut—were the subjects of the study that sought to find out exactly what happens to the body after a year in space. Scott stayed on the International Space Station from March 2015 to March 2016, while Mark remained on Earth. This was the fina