An image of the solar eclipse from Australia taken from space by NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

The type of map shown below, or the method of showing the earth as a whole, is called Cylindrical projection. This is the map we usually see. Here, the surface of the earth is wrapped around an imaginary cylinder and...

The Bikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh Kazakhstan is located in the Altai Territory, just below the flight path of the world's largest and busiest space port. Every time a rocket is launched from the cosmodrome, abandoned fuel tanks, empty booster rockets...

The European Space Agency's spacecraft that carried Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet. On March 2, 2004, Rosetta was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on a 10-year mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta's...