Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... Pictured, the VLT's fourth Unit Telescope, stands like two pillars guiding the galaxy's arm.

These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated their wave function to produce an accurate image of a photon as it’s ...

Then, at the end of the year, the magazine's photo editors select "the most stunning photos" taken by its photographers for its annual Pictures of the Year issue. This year, 20 pictures were ...

But 74 million km isn't such a big deal when the object is the Sun. That's how far away from the Sun the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter was when it captured these new images. The Solar Orbiter was launched in ...

The image appeared in the May 2024 story “Degrees of Change.” Photograph by Brian Skerry This cecropia caterpillar’s appearance seems to say, “don’t touch,” but the insects are rather ...

Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

"Pictures of the Year is one of my favorite things that we do all year," National Geographic Editor-in-Chief Nathan Lump told USA TODAY. "It’s more than just a collection of great images ...

In the midst of body image angst, people tend to forget about the body's important utility, and it does so much for us, too--our bodies get us from point A to point B, for example. Yet many people ...

Four new images show our nearest star in dazzling detail, with each one made up of 25 shots observed by the Solar Orbiter in 2023 Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent This view is just part of a ...

Our shared history can be told through the power of photography. Nat Geo's photo editors selected one image from each year of this century that capture the era's most important stories—from war ...

New generative AI can take your simple text descriptions, called prompts and can quickly translate them into images. These AI image generators can help spark your inspiration, mock up a quick idea ...