See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a 2019 Trump appointee, said after a hearing that ...

Onglaisat, an acronym of “onboard globe-looking and imaging satellite,” mounts TASA’s optical equipment on a cubesat about ...

Feb. 6, 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio made his first foreign trip in office to Central America with the Panama Canal ...

Feb. 6, 2025 This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Subramoney Iyer, highlights some of the most compelling images ...

As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern ...

Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore sky-rocketed into space on 5 June 2025 and have been stranded there ever since.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

Exclusive: New polling from Germany appears to suggest the intervention by the world’s richest man could have a significant ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...