Early Rocket Photos of Earth from Space: Long before we went to the moon, the first pictures of Earth from afar were beamed from the edge of space by rockets in the 1940s.

Earth from space The final image captured by the recently decommissioned Landsat 7 satellite shows how "Sin City" has nearly doubled in size during the iconic spacecraft's 25-year lifespan.

But in 2013, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space, Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging — captured this image of Earth and the moon from 61 million miles away.

The first 360-degree cameras sent to space have captured incredible, high-definition images of Earth like never before seen. Chinese tech company Insta360 recently unveiled the breathtaking photos ...

The high-speed video strings together snapshots of our planet's surface taken daily for the past year. These images were taken with the NOAA's GOES-East satellite, which orbits more than 22,000 ...

From thunderstorm sprites to volcanic plumes, and city lights to meteors, the world appears a different place from 250 miles ...

NASA released a new image of the recent annular solar eclipse where North America can be seen in total darkness. See the moment caught by a space satellite.

People often look at the stars from Earth, but astronauts get to at Earth from the stars. The crew on the International Space station use their cameras to show off the world from 260 miles above.

GOES-16 and GOES-17 can image the Earth at a spatial resolution of about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) and a temporal resolution of five to 10 minutes. How to create your own visualizations ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

On Halloween, NASA Earth posted a picture to X of the aurora borealis taken from space on October 11, 2024 during a G4 geomagnetic storm. "Ahhh a ghost!! Oh, wait, that's just the aurora borealis.

The images reveal how trains move and how wildfires spread. The first images from a new Earth-observing satellite reveal in unprecedented detail how temperatures change on the planet's surface ...