Footage from the spacecraft shows a crescent Earth slipping away from the structure of the European-Japanese probe, which should arrive in orbit Mercury in 2025.

Crescent Earth photographed from deep space . Two Japanese spacecraft, one headed to Venus and another limping home from an asteroid, have beamed home snapshots of Earth that reveal our planet in ...

In ultraviolet, the Earth appears as a dazzlingblue sliver, while the same crescent has a vibrant orange hue in infrared.Akatsuki (which means "Dawn" in Japanese) was flying about 155,342miles ...

Very late today in North American timezones there will be a New Moon, which is when our satellite is between the Earth and the Sun. That happens at precisely 01:17 UTC tomorrow, which is 9:17 p.m ...

Earth is seen as a crescent beyond the moon in this image taken from the Orion spacecraft. NASA. NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which launched atop the Space Launch System (SLS) ...