An astronaut has captured jaw-dropping pictures of cities from space. American spaceman Don Pettit picks out the bright lights of urban areas from 257 miles up on the International Space Station.

Now with powerful technology like the Hubble Space Telescope, one can look farther than ever before and capture the wonders of outer space with its lens. Meant for scientific advancement ...

Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts a visit. "It is totally amazing to ... that formed in the outer solar system ...

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit shared his stunning photographs from his view miles above the Earth on the International Space ...