Our home planet hangs against the darkness of space in this image taken by Artemis 2 Commander Reid Wiseman on April 2, 2026.

More than 50 years after the famous “Blue Marble” photo was taken from Apollo 17, its spiritual followup was snapped from ...

On Christmas Eve in 1972, humanity received a gift: A portrait of the Earth as a vivid globe.Clouds swirl over the vast African continent and south polar ice cap, all set against the deep blue of our ...

The photograph shows the Earth in all its beauty and majesty, with the deep blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, and the browns, greens, and whites of the continents all visible. The ...

The crew of Apollo 17 took this photograph of Earth in December 1972 while the spacecraft was traveling between the Earth and the Moon. The educational children’s show “Big Blue Marble” aired from ...