This year's best snapshots reveal both Earth and space in glorious detail. Check out astronauts' views of eclipses, northern lights, storms, and Earth's grandest landscapes. Every year, the ...

Sitting in the middle of the Iranian plateau, the Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, is the planet’s 24th largest desert. From the ground, the desolate sand dues and bordering mountain range are ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

The view of Earth from space is a sight that's historically been reserved for a select few. So far, just a handful of specially trained astronauts and billionaires have been able to watch the Earth ...

While tens of millions of Americans looked up at the total solar eclipse, NBC News' Gadi Schwartz looked down, getting a different view from high above the Earth ...