A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

This redefined a long-distance call. Earth just received ... record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major implications for the future of space travel. However, this ...

The average distance between the blue planet and its only natural satellite is about 238,855 miles ... Earth and Mars. This remains one of the fastest trips to the moon. In 2003, the European ...

Ever since the dawn of the Space Age, humans have been ... hovering at 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above sea level — an invisible threshold where Earth’s atmosphere gives way to the cosmic ...

The moon's distance from Earth changes depending on where it is in its elliptical orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A curious question sparked a cosmic deep dive into why light never tires—even after 25 million years on the move.

The first television picture from space, taken 450 miles above ... Orion took the snapshot around its maximum distance from Earth of 268,563 miles. Artemis I is the first mission in NASA's program ...

Lasers played a significant role in the sci-fi classic Farscape (streaming now on Peacock) by way of handheld energy blasters and larger space ... From a distance of about 10 million miles ...

but on a space scale, this is very close: The moon orbits us at a much greater distance of 238,900 miles, and the sun is about 93 million miles away. Stock images of an asteroid passing Earth ...

The col o ssal space rock harmlessly whizzed by, as expected, within 1.7 million miles of Earth – or seven times the distance from our planet to the moon. The trajectory of the asteroid ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Earth received a deep space transmission from ... of engineering data from over 140 million miles away. Per the organization, that distance is one and a half times the distance ...