Get an Incredible View of Earth From 19 Miles Up — For a Cool $75K. It's not space. ... Pilots in the X-15 winged rocket plane were given astronaut wings for flights above 50 miles.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's associated with lightning.

The new IMAX film “A Beautiful Planet” (now playing at San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation) is full of eye-popping moments. Most of it was shot from the International Space Station ...

After wowing the world with the first-ever close-up images of Pluto, ... 2015, and was 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth at the time of the photo.

The new image series is one of the best views of the Earth and moon together in years. NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft caught a similar photo in 2008, but it was from a distant 31 million miles away.

The sequence covers the time from April 13 to May 5. It starts at a distance of 800,000 miles (1.3 million kilometers) and expands to 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) away.

But take another look. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured these images at a distance of 3.79 billion miles from Earth — the farthest from our planet an image has ever been made.

Two-hundred-forty miles above the Earth, it turns out, is a stunningly beautiful place to be. In the video above you can view Michael König's five-minute HD video montage of 18 time-lapse sequences of ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990.

What’s it like to fall to Earth from 24 miles up in the stratosphere? Only Felix Baumgartner knows for sure -- but a new video takes you along for his record-breaking ride. On Oct. 14, 2012, the ...