The Taste

In the world of travel photography, the ultimate goal is not just to document a place but to capture its very soul. This was the challenge facing contributing photographer Mark Parren Taylor on his assignment in Seoul, South Korea....

Nestled on the sunlit northern shores of island-speckled Lake Maggiore, the Ascona-Locarno region brings a surprising taste of the Mediterranean to the heart of the Swiss Alps. This unique blend of landscapes, where palm trees stand against a hazy...

In a move that has been hailed as a significant sign of change, the Roman Catholic Church has canonized its first millennial saint: a young Italian teenager named Carlo Acutis. Known posthumously as "God's influencer" and the "patron saint...

On the night of September 7, the moon will embark on a celestial ballet with Earth, slipping into our planet’s shadow and transforming from a familiar silver orb into a magnificent coppery red. This total lunar eclipse, often dubbed...

For decades, humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life has been guided by a single principle: follow the warmth of a star. The traditional "habitable zone" is defined by the narrow band where a planet's surface is neither too hot nor...

For decades, humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life has been guided by a single principle: follow the warmth of a star. The traditional "habitable zone" is defined by the narrow band where a planet's surface is neither too hot nor...

In the vast, inky blackness between stars, a rare visitor is making its way through our solar system. Known as 3I/ATLAS, this interstellar comet, only the third of its kind ever discovered, is proving to be a true enigma,...

When you look at the night sky, it's easy to assume that space is a boundless, endless expanse. Yet, the physics of our universe tell a different, far more contained story. Our cosmos began in a single, infinitesimal point...

In the vast, inky blackness of low Earth orbit, an antennaed aluminum ball silently circles our planet, a ghost of the Cold War's beginning. Known as Vanguard 1, this defunct satellite is, in one view, nothing more than a...

From the vast, inky blackness of space to the tangled brush on a remote island, two photographers have redefined what it means to capture the world. NASA astronaut Don Pettit and National Geographic photographer Babak Tafreshi, bound by a...