Photo Essays
PHOTOS: Russia Meteor Explosion Shatters Windows, Injures Hundreds
In scenes that could have been from a Hollywood movie, a flaming meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia Friday, injuring some 1,000...
Voyager, 6 Billion Miles Later: Photos from the Depths of Our Solar System
For 20 years, America’s Voyager spacecraft have been flying toward the edges of our solar system. TIME surveys the most notable interstellar scenes captured by...
Window on Infinity: Pictures from Space
From a glorious view of Saturn to the Geminid meteor shower, view our monthly roundup of cosmic highlights from December 2012.
Forty Years Later: Apollo 17′s Final Footprints
The thinking 40 years ago was simple: After six lunar landings in less than three and a half years, humanity was clearly on its way to becoming a multi-world...
Views of the Asteroid Vesta
The Dawn spacecraft sends back striking images of the giant protoplanet
The Big Bang
Scientists crash a probe into a comet to discover the origins of the solar system
Out of This World: The Best Space Photos of 2011
Otherworldly views of our solar system from NASA's manned and unmanned missions
