Tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Spruce Pine, North Carolina sits Smithmore Castle, the royal retreat you didn’t know existed in your own backyard. Like a mirage rising from the Blue Ridge ...

Arguably, the highlight for astrophotographers this month is comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)’s brush with the Pleiades open cluster to ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

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Follow along a POV shoot exploring dramatic lighting and composition during a cloudy day at the beach—perfect for landscape ...