769 photographers and astronomers from 66 countries submitted more than 4,000 images to this year's competition.

Susan Maddux often stacks the bunches of painted, folded canvases several feet high, mirroring human proportions.

For Nieves González, the Spanish Baroque art historical legacy informs a painting practice that merges past and present.

Katherine Wolkoff wanders along deer paths on Block Island, which sits a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island.

In March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy.

In the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo-Konibo people (sometimes also spelled Shipibo-Conibo) have made their home around the verdant Ucayali River basin for millennia. Their visual culture is richly ...