EditorialMuslim pilgrims gather to perform the farewell circumambulation or "tawaf", circling seven times around the Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 18 Jun 2024
EditorialDenver East High School students watch a news helicopter circling the area as they wait to be evacuated during a lockdown in Denver, Colo. on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialDenver East High School students watch a news helicopter circling the area as they wait to be evacuated during a lockdown in Denver, Colo. on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialDenver East High School students watch a news helicopter circling the area as they wait to be evacuated during a lockdown in Denver, Colo. on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialBirds circling the banks of the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Miss., on Oct. 26, 2022. Some have looked for fish carcasses. (Lucy Garrett/The New York Times)
EditorialMuslims worshipper pilgrims perform Friday prayer around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand mosque in the holy Saudi city of Mecca, Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 15 Jul 2022
EditorialA supporter gestures to some of the trucks in a convoy circling the Capital Beltway in Vienna, Va., on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialA view across asteroid Bennu’s southern hemisphere and into space, showing its distribution of boulders. The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft has been circling the asteroid for two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by NASA shows an artist’s concept of the Trappist-1 planetary system, seven Earth-like planets circling a dwarf star 40 light-years away, discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by NASA shows an artist’s concept of the Trappist-1 planetary system, seven Earth-like planets circling a dwarf star 40 light-years away, discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)