More than 1,000 firefighters are battling blazes for a seventh day in the popular tourist area in Portugal. Extremely high temperatures have been blamed for sparking the wildfires. By Joanna Ruck.

See amazing astrophotography from the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 shortlist

A recent study conducted by the dating website Loveawake found that the “Facebook shot” is the most effective for attracting men. Ugh, really? Yeah, I get it– it makes everyone, no matter their age, instantly look like a naughty teenager. But it’s also super boring and everyone always makes that stupid flirty face which just makes …

The work of collaborative artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek, rooted in LGBT themes including gay and transgender rights and equality in Latin America and worldwide. Currently focused on the LGBTQ communities of Peru, their work features photography, sculpture, film and mixed-media installation.

It is sad for our country that this is happening. It's even sadder that it has barely been talked about. By Vincent David Johnson.

Last year’s release of iOS 11 from Apple was all about turning the iPad into a full-fledged PC, but there remained a set of core desktop apps that were still stubbornly off Apple’s mobile platform, the full-fat version of Photoshop being key among them. Today, however, a report from Bloomberg reveals that Adobe is working on correcting that omission. Adobe is said to be planning to announce the release of the full version of Photoshop for the iPad in October of this year and to release the app in 2019.

For the past two years, the spacecraft has been taking photos of Jupiter. Here are the best shots. By Brian Resnick.

Its body design became the basis for future cameras

See the winning photos from the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year.

View the winning photographs from National Geographic's 2018 travel photographer competition.

Images by the photographer, spanning across all of Poland and taken for a period of 20 years, reveal the interiors of Polish homes, the objects in fashion, and what was considered valuable by people in the late 20th century.

Whether it’s the Cottingley fairies, ghostly visions or even the Enfield poltergeist, there is a place for the lure of magic in these troubled days, says Eva Wiseman.

A full moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon before a lunar eclipse in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece.

Nikon just announced the winners of the 2017 Small World Photomicrography Competition.

A remote area of Kazakhstan was once home to nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear testing. The impact on its inhabitants has been devastating. By Alexandra Genova, photographs by Phil Hatcher-Moore.

Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves. By John Rennie.

Brown bears, grey seals and an errant crocodile are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

After the Civil War, popular prints and doctored photographs played on the idea that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had been arrested wearing women’s clothes. By Stassa Edwards.

Stories abound of dead people being propped up on stands to seem alive. The reality was different.

My Jungle adventure in an abandoned village, Cheung Uk, in Hong Kong

Powerful images from the past 12 very eventful months. By Alan Taylor.

Reed Bontecou's groundbreaking photography used a new medium to bring attention to the wounds of war

Over the course of a year, photographer Stacy Kranitz documented life in the Ohio River Valley, where voters went for Trump by wide margins. By Alice Speri.

Men feed seagulls along the Yamuna river on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 17.

Photographers help a Rohingya refugee to come out of Nad River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

National Geographic’s 57 best images of the year—curated from 88 photographers, 112 stories, and nearly 2 million photographs.

From Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, to the disaster at Grenfell Tower and a seahorse clinging to a cotton bud: photographers describe how they took some of the defining images of 2017. By Sarah Gilbert.

As a young student, mathematician Carl Størmer used a small hidden camera to photograph life on the streets of Oslo in the 1890s. The spy camera images are some of the earliest examples we have of street photography.

A photographer captures the paths that birds make across the sky.

An aerial photographer explains precisely how he took this amazing photograph.

NASA's Juno mission took incredible new photos during its tenth trip around Jupiter. The planet's clouds look like swirling hallucinations in the images.

A Missouri family recently got a taste of internet stardom after sharing a series of hilariously bad “professional photograph” that they had paid just under $250 for.

Big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner of Germany drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal.

You might be really pleased with the camera technology in your latest smartphone, which can recognise your face and take slow-mo video in ultra-high definition. But these technological feats are just the start of a larger revolution that is underway.

Photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War - the very instant of an execution during the chaos of the Tet Offensive. It would bring him a lifetime of glory, but as James Jeffrey writes, also of sorrow.