Sitting in the middle of the Iranian plateau, the Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, is the planet’s 24th largest desert.

This new AI, called GenEx, can imagine an entire navigable virtual world just by looking at a single still image.

Thick heavy smoke from wildfires passes over the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard ...

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on ...

Raging wildfires in Los Angeles killed at least two people, destroyed hundreds of buildings and stretched firefighting ...

See 13 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

A walk-through on Sunset Boulevard on Thursday in downtown Palisades revealed a tiny microcosm of the havoc the Los Angeles wildfires have wreaked.

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...

Wildfires that are burning in and around Los Angeles have burned the homes of several celebrities, including Billy Crystal, ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with ...

The Palisades fire is the largest in the area. It started on Tuesday and had burned nearly 24,000 acres by Sunday morning, ...

After a series of disastrous elections for the Louisiana Democratic Party, new leaders are trying to figure out a path ...