Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it and the Sun. As a consequence of that geometry, Neptune’s disk ...

New version: Voyager pictured Earth as "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam" It is unquestionably one of the greatest space images ever. The "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth was acquired ...

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska.

In 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped an exceptional view of our vivid blue planet beyond Saturn's glorious rings. "At a ...

A year after the epic Planet Earth II, Sir David Attenborough is returning to our screens with a follow-up to 2001's Blue Planet. No spoilers, but we've seen the first episode and as sequels go we ...

A distinctive blue and green image of Earth reveals our planet's most remarkable features. At 4.54 billion years old, our home world is a venerable object. But it was only with the arrival of the ...

From IMAX Entertainment and Toni Myers—the acclaimed filmmaker behind celebrated IMAX® documentaries Blue Planet, Hubble 3D, and Space Station 3D—A Beautiful Planet presents an awe-inspiring glimpse ...

Notice the red ring around our planet. Everywhere you see that ... Look at the sky during daytime, for example. It appears blue because air molecules in earth's atmosphere scatter blue light ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Sir David Attenborough A Perfect Planet is a unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series will show how the ...

blue world in a bubble of protection from harmful space weather. The Earth's magnetic field traps charged particles in radiation belts in space nearby. The way the magnetic field protects our planet ...

This Live Lesson, created in collaboration with Blue Planet Live, is designed to help you bring Earth's rich marine life into your classroom. Guided by CBBC's Naomi Wilkinson and expert wildlife ...