PHOTOS

From Elvis Presley wearing a velvet suit to meet Richard Nixon to the migrant mother who unwittingly became the face of the Great Depression, these are the true stories behind a few iconic photographs from history.

It’s common sense: If you make a big deal over something, it’s going to attract attention. And if you’re an international superstar, like, say, Barbra Streisand, the tantrum is going to draw even more attention.

Benjamin Grant’s Overview: A New Perspective of Earth stitches together satellite images to show our planet as we’ve never seen it before.

NASA has released the deepest, clearest images of the universe ever captured.

The Sutton Hoo ship burial excavation was meticulously captured by two amateur photographers. Now, you can see their work online.

The Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 is one of the most popular instant cameras you can buy, and now it's on sale on Amazon for a sweet discount.

NASA’s Mars Odyssey has been orbiting the Red Planet for literally 20 years—here’s a glimpse of what it’s been up to.

If you accidentally hit "delete" while browsing your iPhone's camera roll, here's how to undo your mistake and recover your photos.

Snowflake photography is a tricky business, so one innovative cameraman built a whole new device for it.

Video-chatting isn’t all that different than communicating via Floo Powder or portrait-hopping, right?

While your parents were snapping a photo of you covered in birthday cake, the Hubble was snapping one of a dust storm on Mars.

From liaising with Martians to living on the moon, here’s where Soviet magazines thought the Cold War’s space race would take us.