Highlighting the extreme weather conditions hitting Europe, space sensors aboard ESA's Envisat satellite have detected the worst floodwaters to hit Britain for 60 years and deadly fires raging through southern Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The imagination of the artist is just great. picked by cybour 2 years ago

A picture taken of Earth from space, showing half the Earth at night and half illuminated.

<<<Image not related. picked by KingKoopa 2 years ago

NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The 1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

NASA encouraged Europe to work on the development of its own manned spaceship. In such a way Europe will be able to provide the world, and mainly the United States, an additional way of get to the international space station. (without paying the Russians hundreds of millions of dollars) picked by maxriter 4 months ago

On April 12, 1961, the Soviets launched a 27-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin on the world's first piloted space mission. picked by suebe 1 year ago

An image released today of a distant star and its potential planetary companion could go down in history as the first picture of a planet outside our solar system orbiting a sunlike star. picked by AutumnLotus 4 weeks ago

MTV wants to use the original script and film the movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show again."I'd like to see it shown a year from this coming Halloween, but that's up to MTV," Adler said. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

Several years worth of astronomy pictures with a brief description. Interesting if you have some time to kill. picked by Chimerical 10 months ago

It's personal, my son made the Horn of Africa military site and I am so proud he is doing great things over there! picked by TraumaMamma 1 year ago

With some parts of Europe currently in the middle of a heat wave, it seems it's not only people who suffer from the soaring temperatures. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

This map, indicating the varying degrees of 'blondness' in Europe, shows how fair hair gets rarer further away from a central Scandinavian core area – even towards the north. picked by mitzuzake 10 months ago

I thought this picture looked pretty sweet. :) picked by pjanaway 1 year ago

Sony Corp will start selling a new configuration of its PlayStation 3 video game console, with less built-in storage capacity, in Europe on October 10, priced at 399 euros, the company said on Friday. picked by punthe 1 year ago

Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Europe is now the "king of spam," and is responsible for 44 percent of all spam sent worldwide, according to Symantec. picked by DemureArt 8 months ago

It can't really be described. picked by Mershaullk 1 year ago

Whenever Africa is mentioned, most people think of roaming animals and jeep safaris. Whilst Africa has much more to offer than animals, the beauty that nature has bestowed on this continent cannot be overlooked. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

This instructable will show you how to make a picture worth more than a thousand words (literally).

This is a self portrait using the text of Thoreau's "Walden".

PS. its not mine. picked by squirmster 1 year ago

The creation of new oceans and seas is usually a slow geological process. In the case of the Afar Triangle near the Horn of Africa a new ocean is forming more rapidly than geologists expected and will, in time, split Africa apart. picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago