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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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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.

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