Nature

The Cauldron

Most Beautiful Picture October 17, 2020
The cauldron

The Plosky Tolbachik volcano – one of two volcanoes in the Tolbachik volcanic plateau in central Kamchatka, Russia – had begun to erupt again on 29 November 2012 after 36 […]

The Embrace

Most Beautiful Picture October 15, 2020
The Embrace

Sergey Gorshkov scoured the forest for signs of Amur, or Siberian, tigers, searching for the best place to set up his camera trap. He knew his chance of photographing one […]

Rocher Percé, Canada

Most Beautiful Picture April 19, 2020
Percé Rock, Canada

The Percé Rock (Rocher Percé in French) was named Percé (“pierced rock”) by Samuel de Champlain when he discovered it in 1607, in reference to the holes he had seen in the […]

Mega Chad

Most Beautiful Picture February 20, 2020
Lake Mega Chad

About 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa. Known to scientists as Lake Mega Chad, it covered more than 400,000 square kilometers at […]

Seal attack

Most Beautiful Picture February 16, 2020
Leopard seal attack

Gentoo penguins are the fastest underwater swimmer of all penguins. This one tries to flee for its life as a leopard seal bursts out of the water. Antarctic Peninsula coast, […]

Surface of the Sun

Most Beautiful Picture February 3, 2020
Sun surface

This is the first image from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope of the sun’s surface. Released 30 January 2020. This picture is showing the highest ever […]

Porpoise Bay, Antarctica

Most Beautiful Picture December 1, 2019
Porpoise Bay, Antarctica

The incredibly smooth surface of the sea ice indicates that it is topped with ample snow—possibly as much as tens of meters—which also drifted onto the berg’s left side. “That […]

Terkezi Oasis, Chad

Most Beautiful Picture November 1, 2019
Terkezi Oasis, Chad

A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. This image was acquired by Landsat 7 on […]

Portrait of a seal

Most Beautiful Picture October 18, 2019
Portrait of a seal

Seals are very cautious, but curious animals. To win their trust, you need to spend a lot of time under water. Kuril reserve, Kunashir island, Russia.

Love road

Most Beautiful Picture August 31, 2019
Love road

At a winery in Slovenia, the nearby road looks like a heart. “The owner says when the road was build, the workers drunk so much that they made the road […]

Pyrocumulonimbus

Most Beautiful Picture August 15, 2019
Pyrocumulonimbus

On August 8, 2019, a team of atmospheric scientists got an exceedingly rare look at these clouds as they were forming. NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passed directly through a large […]

Divided frogs

Most Beautiful Picture April 15, 2019
Divided frogs

Divided frogs. Photo: Bence Máté Divided frogs try to come to the surface after being thrown into the water in Covasna, Romania. The sale of frog legs, often cut while […]

The Crowd

Most Beautiful Picture March 29, 2019
The Crowd

« The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has […]

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Most Beautiful Picture March 23, 2019
Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2017)

So extensive, it is visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem. Stretching 2,300 km along Australia’s northeast coastline, this complex of shallow water […]

Ao Phang Nga, Thailand

Most Beautiful Picture February 28, 2019
Ao Phang Nga, Thailand

Ao Phang Nga National Park is located in Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand. Most of the park consists of an area of the Andaman Sea studded with numerous limestone tower karst islands. The best known of […]

Mount Rainier

Most Beautiful Picture February 27, 2019
Mount Rainier, Cascades Mountains

The Cascades in Washington, with Mount Rainier, the range’s highest mountain, standing at 4,392 m. Seen in the background (left to right) are Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount St. […]

Firefalls, Yosemite

Most Beautiful Picture February 18, 2019
Golden Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park

For two weeks out of the year, the sun aligns just right with Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park where the waterfall glows like lava a few minutes before sunset.

Jumping Elephant

Most Beautiful Picture January 21, 2019
Jumping Elephant

This photograph is a fake, but it was so funny that we decided to publish it anyway. It comes from a 2008 Photoshop design contest called “Levitations 7”  from the website […]

Sam Cavallaro falling

Most Beautiful Picture January 20, 2019
Sam Cavallaro falling

This shot of Sam Cavallaro falling at Beachers Brook while riding MJP Kendrick at Aintree won the Remarkable Award for Sports in Action of the Siena International Photo Awards.

Leopard seal and penguin

Most Beautiful Picture January 18, 2019
Leopard seal catch a penguin

A leopard seal hides in a lagoon just before low tide, while waiting to ambush young penguins. This seal caught the penguin by its feet, dragging it to the open […]

Ultima Thule

Most Beautiful Picture January 3, 2019
Ultima Thule

First image of Ultima Thule, January 2, 2019. This image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the New […]

Defending his place

Most Beautiful Picture November 24, 2018
Defending his place

On this small remote island live about 150 indigenous people that refuse to have any contact with other humans. Every attempt to set foot on the soil of this island results […]

The Golden Couple

Most Beautiful Picture October 26, 2018
The Golden Couple

As the group of Qinling golden snub-nosed monkeys jumped from tree to tree, Marsel struggled to keep up, slipping and stumbling over logs. Gradually he learned to predict their behaviour, […]

Dizzy Namibia

Most Beautiful Picture June 29, 2018
Dizzy Namibia

The most incredible thing in Namibia is the night sky. Here are 700 frames combined into one image. Each frame is 25 s, f / 2.8, iso 5000, 2 s […]