22.Anacondas are absolutely gigantic. Here's what one looks like in the wild: I'd only ever seen one in that documentary with ...

Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of sunspots and other solar activity.

These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why butterflies have floated into our hearts Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Quentin Nardi Text by ...

Nature Photographer of the Year awards. [Related: Watch a snail lay an egg…from its neck] More than 8,000 images were submitted for consideration at this year’s awards. Visit GDTfoto for a ...

To celebrate, we invited five Washington Post photographers to capture nature, however they saw fit. We shared their photos with five poets who responded to the images with original poems.

Cancel anytime. Dr. James Trager, a retired restoration biologist who works with Shaw Nature Reserve and the Missouri Prairie Foundation, holds up the leaf of a rose verbena, a type of trailing ...

Their message, they say, is that traditions like the Saakhelu must endure as one way to remind people of the balance between humans and nature. The chosen Saakhelu tree, honored with offerings of ...

PARIS, France — Simply looking at nature — or even just digital pictures of it — can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical shocks.

Would an X Rated Emoji now be a crime if sent to a friend?” he wrote, adding that newer smartphones have technology that allows users to create digitally altered images. “You can simply ...

The agency snapped pictures of its return, including the image of a hazmat suit-clad crew attending to the outer space craft. "The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force’s ...