NASA images: Our planet Earth is a part of a giant solar system, which itself is placed inside a humungous galaxy named the Milky Way. Our home galaxy is a large spiral galaxy with a star disk ...
The first image of planet Earth was taken by astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8 as it made its way to the moon on December 24, 1968. Anders was joined by Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, the first ...
Photograph by Garcia Julien, Getty Images We also enjoy protection from Earth's magnetic field, generated by our planet's rotation and its iron-nickel core. This teardrop-shaped field shields ...
Case is made' for Anthropocene Epoch Earth is becoming 'Planet Plastic' Earth's trees ... mode of living that emerged after WWII. Getty Images A careful analysis shows that each successive mode ...