A vendor sells bubble toys at the Galle Face promenade in Colombo on November 19, 2025. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)




A great blue heron is silhouetted against the sunset over the Green Cay Wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)




A couple and their daughter use a telescope to observe the last supermoon of 2025, known as the Cold Moon, in Aguimes, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on December 4, 2025. (Photo by Borja Suarez/Reuters)




A Long March-2F Y22 rocket carrying the Shenzhou-22 spaceship blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, November 25, 2025. China launched the Shenzhou-22 spaceship from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:11 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Tuesday, successfully accomplishing the first emergency launch mission in the country's manned space program. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Live News)




A supermoon, the last full moon of the year, rises in the sky as seen from Istanbul, Turkey, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)




People observe the sunset at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 10, 2025. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP Photo)




A rocket slices across the face of the sun in the first photograph of its kind, taken from Merritt Island, Florida on November 17, 2025, using a hydrogen-alpha telescope eight miles from the launch site. (Photo by Andrew McCarthy/Two Point O Media)




A worker cleans the floor near an art work ahead of the inauguration ceremony of the light festival “Noor Riyadh”, under the theme "In the Blink of an Eye", in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 19, 2025. (Photo by Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)




Giraffes at sunrise at the Loisaba Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya in the first decade of December 2025. (Photo by Andrew Mason/Solent News & Photo Agency)




The buildings of the banking district are seen through light fog in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, December 1, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)