A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more favorable views of renewable energy and the environment.

(Second animation): This animation shows the moon orbiting Earth at the same distance as ... has calculated how big each planet would look in our sky if it replaced the moon.

The animation ... size of the planet we call home and its massive crust. And, as if this amount of ocean wasn’t enough, scientists think there is another ocean inside the Earth, too.

To illustrate what's going on during an equinox, planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation ... the products of Earth's axial tilt: the degree to which the planet is tilted relative ...

tracking its distance from Earth, apparent size relative to our planet, and the speed of its retreat over time. "My animations were made to show as instantly as possible the whole context of what ...