Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

The first images of Earth, though low-resolution and ghostly, arrived at a time when space and defense technology was rapidly advancing. Here are the first images ever taken of our humble planet.

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...

Why Earth's atmosphere appears to glow gold in new NASA photo Though we can't always see it, the optical phenomenon is constantly shining throughout Earth's atmosphere. By Ariana Garcia ...

Astronomers have revealed new processes taking place in our sun’s atmosphere, thanks to exquisite new imagery of the star. Dirk Schmidt at the US National Solar Observatory (NSO) and his ...

The "Blue Marble" is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972 as the Apollo 17 crew made its way to the moon. It's a detailed image of our planet, against the inky black void of space. Africa ...

The images that astronauts take from on the ISS aren't only for enjoyment though. They can also be an important tool for scientific research.NASA has a program called Crew Earth Observations (CEO ...