Sometimes photos can tell stories that words fail to express. Here is a handpicked collection of The Verge's favorite photo essays depicting the future and the future's past.
Mar 7, 2014, 7:00 PM UTCJacob Kastrenakes
Moon shots: the far-out space suits of past, present, and future
Feb 21, 2014, 8:28 AM UTCAaron Souppouris
'Tron' designer creates a real-world superbike
Lotus and Kodewa reunite for the limited-run C-01
Jan 26, 2014, 2:00 PM UTCSean Hollister
BlueShark: where the US Navy dreams up the battleship interfaces of tomorrow
Jan 14, 2014, 4:00 PM UTCAlexander Thompson
How to build the world's most amazing space telescope
Incredible images of the James Webb Telescope, soon to be Hubble's successor
Dec 22, 2013, 7:30 PM UTCAdrianne Jeffries
Tomorrow's robots drive, climb, and drill through walls at DARPA trials
The robots of the future are here, and they move very, very slowly
Nov 28, 2013, 11:21 AM UTCVlad Savov
Shenzhen's new airport terminal puts the wonder back into flight
Oct 19, 2013, 2:00 PM UTCDante D'Orazio
Eight miles of water: underground with Manhattan's new aquatic lifeline
After over 40 years, New York has a new water tunnel to serve its millions
Sep 20, 2013, 7:30 PM UTCJacob Kastrenakes
Alien frontier: see the haunting, beautiful weirdness of Mars
Sep 19, 2013, 5:23 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Even the trees are watching: collecting the Stasi's hidden cameras and secret radios
Captured relics of a dead surveillance state
Aug 27, 2013, 8:00 PM UTCDante D'Orazio
Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish
Jun 19, 2013, 12:30 PM UTCVlad Savov
The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things
Proton beams, cryogenics, superconductors, and massive underground labs — welcome to CERN!
Jan 28, 2013, 1:37 AM UTCSam Byford
NASA's Space Food Systems lab shows what astronauts really eat in orbit
Jan 4, 2013, 3:11 PM UTCLaura June and David Pierce
Incredible photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2014
The future arrives over and over and over again
Dec 3, 2012, 7:19 PM UTCJeff Blagdon and Sam Byford
Iron Giant: Up close with Kuratas, the $1.4 million, 4-ton mech robot
Oct 17, 2012, 7:27 PM UTCVerge Staff
Behind the mask: being yourself as someone else at New York Comic Con
Thousands of people spent their weekend in costume; we asked a few of them to step out of character
