On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. In that ...

A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness of space. For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic views from the Voyager mission, NASA’s Jet ...

Negotiations are still underway between Pale Blue Dot Ventures and the City of Lompoc, with an eighth deadline extension recently granted to the developer group working to purchase 82 acres of ...

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More than fur years ago, Pale Blue Dot Ventures (PBD) approached the Lompoc City Council and began a process to convert Ken Adam Park into a space exploration-based educational and entertainment venue ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s fitting that “Pale Blue Dot” was taken on Valentine’s Day. It was, in its most ...

A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

One of the most enduring and captivating images from our exploration of space in the late 20th century was Voyager 1's mosaic of our own solar system - a family portrait from 3.7 billion miles away.

Rather than embracing escapist fantasies of colonizing space, humankind needs to commit itself to saving the planet, expert says Every day seems to bring news of multiplying ecological disasters—fires ...

Once more the time rolls round to send you the traditional Solstice Greetings. I am frankly dumfounded to realize that since I arrived on this planet the earth has gone the whole way around the sun ...