In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the ...

Engineers and technicians from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland crawl under the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ...

A spacecraft on a mission to bite off a piece of an asteroid just flew past Earth ... space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. The OSIRIS-REx photo is ...

The telescope has taken a wide variety of photos documenting celestial bodies, from Earth’s neighboring planets like Mars to faraway nebulae trapped in space and time, like the Horsehead and ...

Pettit said his photography is about the perspective of being in orbit. “Earth is amazingly beautiful when your feet are firmly planted on the ground, and it’s beautiful from space,” Pettit ...

The Rho Ophiuchi nebula system is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and as such has come under the scrutiny of both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope in recent ...

April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to honor and respect our precious planetary home and its immeasurable beauty ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth ... Space Station (ISS). During his time in orbit some 250 miles above Earth, Pettit has been sharing breathtaking photos and ...

The trio are returning to Earth after logging 220 days in space as members of Expeditions 71 and 72 aboard the International Space Station.

captivated by the sight of the Earth from space. "All the images captured with Hasselblads are spectacularly clear and bright," says Jennifer Levasseur, curator at the Smithsonian National Air and ...