Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First photograph of Earth taken from Moon's orbit turns 59 NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first photograph of Earth from ...

On August 23, 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, showing our planet as a delicate crescent rising above the lunar horizon. While ...

The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, it was produced by exposing a bitumen-coated pewter plate in a camera ...

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an image of Dolley Madison that's believed to be the first photograph of a first lady. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the first ...

On 23 August 1966, NASA captured the first photograph of the Earth as seen from a lunar orbit by its unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 probe. This spacecraft had been launched on 10 August 1966 with a very ...

Thanks to the invention of photography, the 19th century is the earliest point in history that we can see as it actually was. Steadily less blurry images tell a story of industrialisation and ...