
Messier 82, or M82, is a galaxy that is oriented edge-on to Earth. This gives astronomers and their telescopes an…

This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station looks north across Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan with the Caspian Sea at left…

The well-lit United Arab Emirates with Qatar and Bahrain.

The well-lit Middle Eastern cities along the Persian Gulf coast.

The well-lit United Arab Emirates on the Arabian Peninsula.

An Expedition 63 crew member photographed the well-lit, highly populated areas of Pakistan and northern India.

This week in 1984, space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-41D, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on its maiden voyage.

NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It’s tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist…

An Expedition 63 crew member, looking from northeast to southwest, photographed the Rocky Mountains running from Canada and into the…

Wildfires are pictured in the Amazon rainforest as the International Space Station orbited above the border between Bolivia and Brazil.