Earth 'Nothing short of spectacular': ESA's Biomass satellite releases 1st views of Earth from orbit (photos) International Space Station Lightning from above | Space photo of the day for May 23, 2025 ...

Lightning from above | Space photo of the day for May 23, 2025 'Nothing short of spectacular': ESA's Biomass satellite releases 1st views of Earth from orbit (photos) Blue Marble from Suomi NPP.

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 A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.

An astronaut who served on the ISS and members of NASA's Earth Science and Remote Sensing unit share their favorite photos of Earth taken from space.

This infrared photo, taken from 2.2 million miles away, reveals the vast distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000 miles, about 30 times the diameter of Earth.

Anton Balazh/Shutterstock Er, wait a minute. If you've seen enough images of Earth from space at night, or you care to look closely enough, this image looks funny — and yet it has been shared ...

Seventy years ago today, humans took a photo of our home planet as seen from space for the first time. The image itself is unassuming. Taken from aboard a Nazi-built V2 rocket on Oct. 24, 1946 ...

This is not a genuine photograph of Earth from the moon but rather a digital composite of at least two different images. The image is available via stock photography websites such as Shutterstock ...

A novice photographer at the start, Peake experimented with different techniques and lenses, eventually becoming a pro at capturing earth images from space. The space station orbits the earth 16 ...

Before the White Sands photos, the highest photo ever taken was from the Explorer II balloon in 1935, 13.7 miles up, just high enough to make out the curvature of the Earth.