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ISS astronauts watch Earth's atmosphere glow green | Space photo of the day for Dec. 8, 2025

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow.
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NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts land aboard Russian Soyuz after 8 months on International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky landed on Russia's Soyuz MS-27 on Dec.

NASA astronaut back on Earth after 8 months on space station

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home from the International Space Station alongside two Roscosmos cosmonauts landing in the ...

Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to Earth, Russia's space agency says

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA ...
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Rare 'sunglint' transforms Alabama River into a giant 'golden dragon' — Earth from space

A 2023 astronaut photo shows the moment the Alabama River briefly morphed into an undulating golden serpent, similar in shape ...
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A Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Growing, but Scientists Say Not to Worry. Here’s a Look at What Shields Us From Space Weather

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

A Watch That Works as Well on Earth as It Did in Space

Omega’s Speedmaster, worn by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on their 1969 journey to the moon, gets an update.
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More Than 500,000 Satellites Are Set to Orbit Earth by 2040. They May End Up Photobombing the Images Captured by Space Telescopes

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

New images show an interstellar comet that will soon make its closest approach to Earth

New images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a Jupiter-bound mission showcase interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ahead of its ...

NASA's Hubble telescope gets another look at 3I/ATLAS. Here's what it found

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.

How should we deal with space junk? Space recycling, of course

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...