Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series. More about comets Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest Rare comet ...

V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.

Related: See all the best images of Earth from space A group of five barchan, or "horned," sand dunes can be seen in a zoomed-in version of the 2013 photo (see below). Over time, these arrowhead ...

Sen aims to use the story-telling power of video to inspire, empowering everyone to witness planetary change and humanity's exploration of space.

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

Related: See all the best images of Earth from space In the astronaut photo ... would not be strong enough to make the clouds look so real. But in this case, the orientation of the sun relative ...

Across his four space missions over the last 30 years, Pettit has earned a deserved reputation for his outstanding photography work, capturing sublime images of Earth and beyond. The advent of ...

The satellite image above is what is known as a "best pixel mosaic" and was made using a computer program that sorts through multiple images of ... Science's weekly Earth from space series.

As that description notes, the WorldView Legion spacecraft are capable of resolving features as small as 12 inches (30 ...

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit shared his stunning photographs from his view miles above the Earth on the International Space ...