Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NASA has released the first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, taken just days ago by the New Horizons spacecraft. The photo was captured using the craft’s...
Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space Station (ISS) late last month. Cristoforetti shared her photo on...
Image: A composite image showing Mars and comet Siding Spring passing one another on Sunday. Credit: NASA, ESA, PSI, JHU/APL, STScI/AURA. NASA’s Hubble Telescope captured a very rare occurrence last weekend (10/19/14) as comet ‘Siding Spring’ brushed past Mars – an...
Photo of an Aurora Borealis captured from Space. Image Credit: ESA/NASA. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this incredible image of an aurora roughly 220 miles above Earth from the International Space Station. Auroras are caused by solar...
