The Earth is set to have three remarkably shorter than average days in the coming weeks as the Earth’s rotation unexpectedly ...

The Pale Blue Dot was the brainchild of famed astronomer, science communicator and Voyager imaging team member Carl Sagan, who first proposed snapping Earth with Voyager cameras in 1981.

Other ‘selfies’ of Earth The Pale Blue Dot was not the first image of Earth taken from space. On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts William Anders, James Lovell and Frank Borman were in ...

Last September, a portion of Cassini’s picture showing Earth was unveiled to an auditorium full of scientists attending the third Pale Blue Dot workshop at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

The original "Pale Blue Dot" is a famous image of Earth taken from a distance of around 3.7 billion miles by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

While the spacecraft is simply too far away to capture any detail -- "we're still going to be a pale blue dot," Porco said -- the image should show both the planet and its moon, separated by about ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image is just as awe-inspiring today.

When searching for Earth-like worlds around other stars, instead of looking for the "pale blue dot" described by Carl Sagan, new research suggests that a hunt for dry, cold "pale yellow dots ...

In 1990, Voyager 1 captured the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken, revealing that from beyond Pluto's orbit, Earth appears as nothing more than a "pale blue dot."In a new study ...

An incomplete list of news items from the past week: the Russia probe got a potential end date, 10 students were killed in a school shooting, an American actress married into the British royal family, ...

Other ‘selfies’ of Earth. The Pale Blue Dot was not the first image of Earth taken from space. On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts William Anders, James Lovell and Frank Borman were in ...