Humanity's first look at Earth from the moon didn't come until Aug. 23, 1966, when this grainy, black-and-white image showed our planet as a crescent above the lunar horizon, appearing to rise as the ...
As they fly around the moon, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II will see views never seen by the human eye. Here's how.
“What?” NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson exclaimed after her fellow Shane Kimbrough radioed her saying, “Peggy, I don’t have a shield.” It was Thursday, March 30, 2017, and Whitson was tethered to the ...
A vast, magnetically tangled sunspot has rotated into direct view of Earth, raising the prospect of powerful solar eruptions in the coming days. The active region is large enough to dwarf our planet ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which is investigating a group of asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun, snapped this image on September 16 as 3I/ATLAS approached Mars. NASA / Goddard / SwRI / ...
A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The ...