The last few days have seen a parade of planets lined up in the night sky with Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and the moon all visible -- a planetary alignment that won't happen again until 2040. [Read More]
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A set of more than 300 photos from the NASA Apollo missions collected by historian J. L. Pickering are set to be auctioned and feature vintage photos and film strips, many of which are considered to be extremely rare. petapixel.com »
2021-09-02 20:53
A wildlife photographer was shooting in Kenya when he captured photos of a rare zebra foal that had white spots on a dark coat rather than the typical black stripes on a white coat. Hong Kong-based wildlife photographer Frank Liu was visiting the East African nation in September 2019 when the strange-looking baby was discovered. […] petapixel.com »
2021-03-09 20:21
He is 100% Siberian Husky and registered with the AKC. Many people think he is part wolf, and though he may pose like a wolf for photos, he is very much a pampered pup! boredpanda.com »
2020-09-03 06:56
"I spent two and a half years in the Kabini Forest, between December 2017 and January 2020, on a filming permit," Jung told Bored Panda. "This filming permit allowed [me and the team] to make a documentary on the black panther for National Geographic." boredpanda.com »
2020-07-16 13:15
The highly classified US Air Force facility in Nevada commonly known as Area 51 has long been a source of intrigue for conspiracy theorists, some of whom believe that the site is used for studying crashed alien spaceships. petapixel.com »
2020-04-09 21:08
Photographer Joel Sartore, founder of the National Geographic project The Photo Ark, has suffered a devastating loss and is asking the public for help. He had a luggage stolen at the airport in Bali, and among the items lost were three hard drives containing three weeks of photos and videos Sartore shot of some of […] petapixel.com »
2019-12-30 17:00
Media is packed with shiny covers and airbrushed images of celebrities we love, but the candid behind-the-scenes images that capture the unpolished truths and honest emotions of these famous faces are what show someone we can actually relate to. boredpanda.com »
2019-04-17 16:07
F_MU1 was an incredible elephant. For more than 60 years, she lived a peaceful life in a quiet corner of Tsavo in Kenya. When I first saw her I was awestruck, for she had the most amazing tusks I had ever seen. petapixel.com »
2019-03-12 19:13
Bird watcher Shirley Caldwell was looking out at the bird feeders in her backyard when the Erie, Pennsylvania, resident spotted an unusual bird: it was a half-male, half-female cardinal. National Geographic writes that the bird’s anomaly is known as a bilateral gynandromorph, in which half of a creature’s body is male and the other half […] petapixel.com »
2019-02-11 19:02
You may be cool, but you'll never be "Dalì-Throwing-Gang-Signs-On-A-Gondola" cool. These pictures come from one of the biggest photographic archives in Europe, Cameraphoto studio in Venice. boredpanda.com »
2018-12-03 13:27
In 1946, a talented photographer Richard C. Miller invited a pinup of the American Armed Forces to pose for him in a photo shoot. He didn't yet know, though, that his 19-year-old model Norma Jeane Dougherty would eventually become world's most iconic sweetheart - Marilyn Monroe. boredpanda.com »
2018-09-27 00:41
Bored Panda has collected a series of vintage photographs that take you through different grocery stores across America over history, and it’s safe to say these store-goers would never be caught dead in their pajamas. boredpanda.com »
2018-07-04 10:39
Bored Panda has collected a series of vintage photographs that take you through different grocery stores across America over history, and it’s safe to say these store-goers would never be caught dead in their pajamas. boredpanda.com »
2018-07-04 10:39
National Geographic contributing photographer Laurent Ballesta was diving in the waters of French Polynesia when he finally saw a sight that he had been working for the last four years to capture: a shark feeding frenzy in the midst of breeding groupers. petapixel.com »
2018-04-16 20:40
For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.' boredpanda.com »
2017-08-22 16:36
The photos were taken in 1950 with a still unknown Marilyn, by a Life Magazine photographer Ed Clark, at the suggestion of a friend of 20th Century Fox telling of the new hiring of the studios. "I sent several rolls to LIFE in New York, but they wired back, ‘Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?" - Ed Clark. boredpanda.com »
2017-07-16 16:58
During the late 70's and early 80's, New York City's subway system was one of the most dangerous places a person could be. Lucky for those of us who never had the chance to see it, Swiss photographer Willy Spiller was there, and the dark and atmospheric series of photos he took has now come to be known as Hell On Wheels. boredpanda.com »
2017-05-10 11:51
Today marks what would have been the 75th birthday of one of the 20th century’s most significant and celebrated sports figures, Muhammad Ali. boredpanda.com »
2017-01-17 12:51
A creative photographer used ancient and mythical rocks as the basis of a 360-degree "stellar flower" image that shows the passage of day into night and the setting of Venus and the Moon. [Read More]
Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up. [Read More]
A photographer captured Venus and Jupiter over a period of 10 days as they converged toward each other in the night sky, practically kissing one another at the apex. [Read More]
There aren't many good photos of Venus, and even fewer have been captured from the planet's surface. Distance alone can't explain the relative lack of pictures of Earth's second-nearest neighbor. [Read More]
Starting in April, the northern hemisphere will be treated to an alignment of up to five planets and the moon, all visible together. Planetary alignments, especially at this scale, aren't common and could prove to be an excellent photo opportunity. [Read More]