NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe.

The pictures were taken inside the International Space Station last week, when Sunita Williams and Nick Hague donned ...

while also sharing pictures showing scenes from inside the station. Dominick is now back on terra firma, but fans of ISS photography can currently enjoy the work of another NASA astronaut ...

Two NASA astronauts are preparing for the first spacewalk of the year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The ...

"NASA astronauts @AstroHague and @Astro_Suni suited up inside @Space_Station last week for fit checks ahead of their 6.5-hour ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... the Milky Way, from the International Space Station (ISS). Petit shared the image on his X feed, writing: "One photo ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), hailed as the ‘Comet of the Century,’ was captured from the ISS as it orbited 250 miles above the South Atlantic. The unobstructed view offers an ...

You simply can't beat the views from the International Space Station. An icy lake in southwestern China's high plateau region north of the Himalayas.NASA So astronauts take hundreds of photos each ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has once again served as ... to autonomously maneuver around the space station, capturing photos and videos as it goes. Having a robot photographer onboard ...

Star trackers are designed to rotate with the Earth — or in Pettit’s case, the ISS — to prevent distortion when taking pictures of the night sky. One of Pettit’s photos, which you can see ...

One of the photos shows Williams and Pettit sporting red, white-trimmed Santa hats and nervous grins while speaking on a ham radio inside the ISS’s Columbus laboratory module. Meanwhile ...

Yes, that’s how many images the NASA astronaut captured during his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station ... also sharing pictures showing scenes from inside the station.