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Final photo from iconic US satellite shows how Las Vegas has ‘doubled’ in size over the last 25 years — Earth from space

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Las Vegas, Nevada [36.10457930, -115.1448612] What’s in the photos? Aerial shots taken at the start…

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‘Nothing short of spectacular’: ESA’s Biomass satellite releases 1st views of Earth from orbit (photos)

VIENNA, AUSTRIA — An exclamation of awe, excitement and cheers erupted today at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium as a striking…

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2 Chinese spacecraft just met up 22,000 miles above Earth. What were they doing?

China brought two spacecraft together high above Earth as part of a refueling demonstration mission, according to a space situational…

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Fish rescue wins New Scientist Editors Award at Earth Photo 2025

Yurok Tribal members and biologists set up fish traps with technicians on a tributary of the Klamath River in California…

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SpaceX sends 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on launch from Florida

Twenty-eight new SpaceX Starlink satellites are now in low Earth orbit, having launched from Florida early Wednesday morning (June 18).…

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Giant ‘Saharan dust’ plume swirls around Africa a week before it hit Florida — Earth from space

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Mid-Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa What’s in the photo? A giant, comma-shaped…

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SpaceX launch from California sends 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit

SpaceX launched 26 Starlink satellites from California on Monday evening (June 16). A relatively new Falcon 9 rocket, making only…

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‘Impossible’ particle that hit Earth may have been dark matter

A blazar may have blasted dark matter at Earth M. Weiss/CfA/NASA An extremely high-energy particle that was spotted tearing through…

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‘People thought this couldn’t be done’: Scientists observe light of ‘cosmic dawn’ with a telescope on Earth for the first time ever

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to peer back into the cosmic dawn — an era more…

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Crashed lander looks back at Earth from the moon photo of the day for June 10, 2025

Resilience, a lunar lander built and operated by the Japanese company ispace, was part of the Hakuto-R Mission to deploy…

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