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This striking astronaut photo shows one of Russia's deepest lakes sandwiched between two halves of a volcano as its surface was transformed into a reflective sea of swirling clouds thanks to a ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...

But Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore aren’t like most of us. Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore, two NASA astronauts, left for the International Space Station on June 5 for what was intended to be an ...

This worked well for Apollo and low Earth orbit because the sun angle was managed by mission planning and astronaut self-positioning; helmet design alone addressed all vision challenges.

Every year, the International Space Station produces some of the world's best photography. Astronauts tend to be technically skilled with a camera, yes. Many of them are engineers, after all.

The sight of astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore celebrating Christmas aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with Santa hats, Christmas tree and festive decorations sparked a flurry ...

Yes, that’s how many images the NASA astronaut captured during his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which ended in October. NASA remarked on how Dominick’s imagery ...

A giant congregation of crabs filmed 1,350 feet below the surface in the ocean off of Chile. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute / YouTube An age of discovery is upon us. Earth is an ocean planet ...