More than 100 days after it launched, NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has reached its orbit position about one million miles from Earth. Once final instrument checks are ...

While DSCOVR's primary mission is monitoring the solar wind, its EPIC instrument provides full-disk views of the Earth, sometimes capturing the moon as it passes between the Earth and the spacecraft.

The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | ...

Our home, delievered fresh from deep space to your browser. Cllick to embiggen. Photo by NASA Have you ever dreamt of flying away from the Earth, zooming through space, then turning around to see what ...

Many satellites that monitor the Earth orbit relatively close to the planet, while some satellites that monitor the sun orbit our star. DSCOVR will keep an eye on both, with a focus on the sun. To ...

Could a space weather satellite be helpful in exoplanet hunting? Well, it now turns out it could. According to a team of scientists led by Stephen Kane from the San Francisco State University, the ...

Yep, it even made me say "Wow." NASA released animated images from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite showing the "ultimate cosmic photobomb." The moon passes in front of the Earth.

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One night in February 1998, Vice President Al Gore awoke with a start. He had dreamed of a satellite. It would sit far out in space, beyond the reach of more conventional orbiters, so distant it could ...

The view from DSCOVR shows the shadow of the Moon on the Earth (upper right). NASA/DSCOVR EPIC team Earlier this week, the Moon passed directly in front of the Sun to create a solar eclipse … but only ...