6. One of the STS-103 astronauts inside Discovery's cabin took this image of the full moon backdropped against the blackness of space over Earth's horizon.
"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately 120 million miles, are called near-Earth objects—or NEOs," Svetla ...
The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...