Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A March 9 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) features an image of the Earth taken from outer space. “The first ‘photo’ of ...

The first images showing the curvature of Earth from space were not captured on April Fool’s Day in 1960. Some people are sharing this false claim online with the wider idea that it discredits ...

Reaching 51,000 feet (15,544.8 meters) is a transformative moment in a pilot's career, marking the transition from traditional flight into a realm that feels distinctly extraterrestrial. At this ...

NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn has shared a breathtaking image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) showing the curvature of Earth as well as part of the Caribbean. In his tweet, the ...

We all know the Earth is round. Not perfectly so but close enough. We live on an oblate spheroid, a slightly squashed sphere that's wider at the equator than around the poles. The difference between ...