The Hubble Space Telescope almost didn’t make it. Carried aloft in 1990 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, it was over-budget, years behind schedule…
Somewhere in the Sea of Tranquillity, the little depression in which Buzz Aldrin stood on the evening of July 20, 1969, is still…
The terrified young boy with his hands raised at the center of this image was one of nearly half a million Jews packed…
“Come on over, come on over!” (Komm’ rüber!) the West Berlin crowd on Bernauer Strasse chanted. Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this photograph…
There’s no way of knowing how many pictures were taken of Anna Bertha Röntgen, and most are surely lost to history. But one…
It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’ march toward Japan.…
Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine believed that images of child labor would force citizens to…
It was the invasion to save civilization, and LIFE’s Robert Capa was there, the only still photographer to wade with the 34,250 troops…
Archaeologists have uncovered the skeleton of a warrior in northern Italy from the 6th century who after having his hand amputated, used a…
A father comforts his son, David Kirby, on his deathbed in Ohio, 1989. Widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS.…
Boredom can be a powerful incentive. In 1997, Philippe Kahn was stuck in a Northern California maternity ward with nothing to do. The…
There was nothing particularly special about Garth and Lisa or the violence that happened in the bathroom of their suburban New Jersey home…