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a light green aurora over a waterfall

12 ethereal images from the 2025 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

two astronauts share a holiday meal on the ISS

International Space Station

9 festive ISS holiday celebrations through the years

By Laura Baisas

a monkey with its hand over its mouth

Endangered Species

10 captivating images from National Geographic’s Photo Ark

By Popular Science Team

a large geode with purple and white gems

A 1,000-pound geode, mosasaur skeleton, and head to auction

By Popular Science Team

a sunrise over a desert landscape

13 perfect panoramic images from the 2025 Epson International Pano awards

By Popular Science Team

a close up of an opal

What do you see? 12 extreme close-ups bring ‘hidden science’ to life

By Felice Frankel

a glowing green capped mushroom

13 fascinating fungi photos that’ll really grow on you

By Popular Science Team

the international space station above the earth, with a green and red aurora shining on the planetImage: Photo by Don Pettit.

5 specially-crafted images to celebrate World Space Week

By Popular Science Team

a purple octopus on the bottom of the ocean

13 inspiring photos of thriving deep-sea animals

By Popular Science Team

a sea otter with its paw on its head

6 fun photos to celebrate Sea Otter Awareness week

By Popular Science Team

the northern lights over a snowy iceland landscape

12 astonishing images from the 2025 Astrophotography Prize Photographer of the Year

By Popular Science Team

a red panda in a tree

11 adorable photos of red pandas to celebrate International Red Panda Day

By Popular Science Team

a vulture with a white feathers on its body and black, red, white, red, and yellow feathers near its beak

11 majestic photos of vultures for International Vulture Awareness Day

By Popular Science Team

a clear squid like creature dotted with small orange circles

9 other worldly images of ‘The Radiant Sea’

By Popular Science Team

two park rangers sink in a cardboard boat

Ready, Set, Paddle! Scenes from The Great Salem Maritime Cardboard Boat Regatta

By Popular Science Team

Billy Joel in the 1970s wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, aviator sunglasses, a leather jacket, jeans, and worn-out tennis shoes. He’s napping casually on an airplane with retro orange seats and warm-toned walls ranging from orange to yellow. The seat in front of him has been folded over so he can stretch up with his legs up on the folded seat. Behind him, a passenger with glasses is reading, while another passenger in front is smoking a cigarette.

15 fascinating photos of flying through the decades

Woman using old cell phone in Nokia ad

12 Nokia Design Archive photos celebrating peak Y2K tech

By Popular Science Staff

a tomb in a desert

Archaeologists find the 4,000-year-old tomb of an overachieving Egyptian magician

By Laura Baisas

Astronomy: a 40-foot telescope constructed by William Herschel, in use outdoors. Coloured etching, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.

Space Telescope

400 years of telescopes: A window into our study of the cosmos

By Bill Gourgey

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)

100 years of aliens: From Mars beavers to little gray men

By Bill Gourgey