The biggest digital camera on Earth is finished — and it will soon revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos. The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California announced the ...

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 powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...