make it very hard to choose any one photo as Photo of the Week. Our photographers outdid themselves with creatively captured shots of New Glenn as it launched into the dark sky early Thursday morning.

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Subramoney Iyer, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon According to the European Space Agency, Mars is closest to the ...