From the first photo of the Earth from space to the farthest image taken 3.7 billion miles away, see what our planet looks like from afar.

These rare pictures of Earth and the moon from space reveal a humbling truth: We live on a tiny, fragile rock that is hopelessly lost in the cosmic void.

HOUSTON - There may be no way to truly describe how theEarth looks from space without physically going there. But that hasn?t keptveteran astronaut Michael Massimino, now working at the Hubble ...

This 2014 satellite photo shows a cloud of haze sitting in the Kashmir Valley in the Himalayas. The ethereal "lake" consists mainly of smog and other pollutants from nearby factories.

Back to Article List Best images of Earth as seen from space in 2022 Compelling images captured from orbit revealed our planet in all its beauty and fury during the year just gone by.

The blue marble NASA Earth Observatory Take a couple minutes between the barbecue and fireworks to put things into the larger context by appreciating “that we are all riding through the universe ...

Bill Ingalls/NASA “Earth is amazingly beautiful when your feet are firmly planted on the ground, and it’s beautiful from space,” Pettit said. “And it’s hard to say what is more beautiful.

Few humans have had the opportunity to see Earth from space, much less live in space. We got to talk to one of these lucky people — NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara. She will soon conclude her nearly ...

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SpaceX photos of its latest launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday are something really rather special.