Pictures of the Week: Earth from Space
View of the earth from space showing North American and South America and the sun shining in the background. T. Kevin Smyth Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: scphotos073660 It’s...
View ArticleCuriosity Rover Lands on Mars
This graphic shows the locations of the cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, loaded with the most-sophisticated instruments ever used to explore another world, touched down...
View ArticleEditors Picks: Hadfield’s Space Oddity, Bruins Comeback & Cannes Film Festival
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield speaks on the phone after the Russian Soyuz space capsule landed some 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, in central Kazakhstan May 14, 2013. The...
View ArticleMars Curiosity Rover: One Year Later
This self-portrait shows the deck of NASA’s Curiosity rover from the rover’s Navigation camera. World History Archive/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: whphotos057975 If you watched the live...
View Article22 Photos from the Hubble Telescope
A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks: Carnival Around the World, Sochi Closing Ceremonies, &...
A lady with fish headdress stares at the camera during the 28th Caracol Festival held at Makati City, Philippines, 23 February 2014. Caracol festival is an annual festivity aims to promote conservation...
View Article45 Years Since the First Steps on the Moon
The Apollo 11 crew comprised astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot. It launched from the Kennedy Space...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks: A View from Space, Perfect Timing, & Tennis in the Big Apple
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, 2014. NASA/Sipa USA/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: sipaphotosfour924275...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks: Don’t Try This at Home, Looking to Space, and an Awkward Toast
Samuel Volery, a professional mountaineer, balances on the ‘highline’ during the Highline Extreme event on the top of the Moleson mountain at 2,000 meters above the sea level, in the Swiss Alps, near...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks: Scott Kelly Returns, Northern Light Beauty, and Canada’s...
American astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA, gives a thumb up minutes after landing aboard the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft in a remote area March 2, 2016 near Zhezkazgan,...
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