A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. In that ...

A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness of space. For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic views from the Voyager mission, NASA’s Jet ...

Rather than embracing escapist fantasies of colonizing space, humankind needs to commit itself to saving the planet, expert says Every day seems to bring news of multiplying ecological disasters—fires ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft was nearly 4 billion miles away when it entered the last reaches of our solar system and NASA engineers turned the space probe around so it could snap an image of the Earth.

One of the most enduring and captivating images from our exploration of space in the late 20th century was Voyager 1's mosaic of our own solar system - a family portrait from 3.7 billion miles away.

Have you ever wondered what the Earth looks like from the Moon? Or what the Earth and Moon looks like through the rigs of Saturn, or billions of miles away from the edge of the Solar System? Well, now ...

Once more the time rolls round to send you the traditional Solstice Greetings. I am frankly dumfounded to realize that since I arrived on this planet the earth has gone the whole way around the sun ...