We’ve come a long way from what the first photo ever taken looked like. Here it is, the first picture in history: This image looks like a charcoal sketch or perhaps some kind of strange ...

Seventy years ago today, humans took a photo of our home planet as seen from space for the first time. The image itself is unassuming. Taken from aboard a Nazi-built V2 rocket on Oct. 24 ...

Under ultracold conditions, bosons form a curious state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which all the ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photograph of the whole Earth and the only one ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

Art Historian Nicholas Allen has a radical theory about the image on the Shroud of Turin; he believes it was the world's first photograph, taken 500 years before the known invention of photography.

By 1902, they were using the camera that would take the famous picture, a Korona-V ... it captured every detail of the flight of the world’s first airplane. The craft rode down the 60-foot ...