Video: Vice President Al Gore attends DSCOVR launch

Expect fewer missions to study planet Earth in NASA’s future, agency officials told an advisory group last week. A blueprint of the Trump administration’s proposed NASA budget would cancel four Earth science missions already in the agency’s portfolio and slash research funding geared toward future projects.

Unfavorable high-altitude winds force officials to halt the countdown to launch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Deep Space Climate Observatory on Feb. 10.

Your daily dose of planet Earth is now just a click away, thanks to a new NASA website hosting photos looking back at the world from a small satellite stationed almost a million miles away, realizing a dream of former Vice President Al Gore nearly two decades ago.