New version: Voyager pictured Earth as "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam" It is unquestionably one of the greatest space images ever. The "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth was acquired ...

We know what Earth looks like. Famously nicknamed the “pale blue dot” by Carl Sagan, our planet is a fairly small, rocky one with a moon, a thin atmosphere, a little bit of land, and a whole ...

But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines to peer back at the vivid blue dot in the ... still see Earth in ...

This year is the 30 th anniversary of the Pale Blue Dot, the renowned photo of our planet taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a great distance. Featuring Earth as a tiny dot against the vast ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

as well as the climates of Earth-like planets with unusual spins and orbital shapes. His present work is on the final stages of planetary accretion, the formation of the Moon, and designs for a new ...

Best of Blue Dot: The Rescue Effect ... The Key to Saving Life on Earth. Webster is an environmental scientist with a fascinating take on how nature has built in mechanisms that serve to preserve ...

"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." — astronaut Bill Anders. At one point in Apollo 8's lunar orbit, the Earth came into ...

Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed or deformed over time by more than four billion years of geology, scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples ...

“A lot of the work that we do is trying to understand how life gets started on Earth,” says Laurie ... for habitable worlds beyond our pale blue dot. So could Europa have the conditions ...

These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon ...

The only problem is that, if your initials happened to be P.W., then your wolf name is… Moon Moon, which, as Kitchiki pointed out in his post, is hilariously stupid. “Oh shit, who brought Moon ...