Renowned NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his artistic space photography, took the picture of Mecca's Kaaba while on his ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, renowned for his artistic space photography during his fourth ISS mission, captured the scene from the ...

Watch live as Muslim pilgrims from around the world perform “tawaf,” circling the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, on the last day of Hajj.

Watch live as Muslim pilgrims perform “tawaf,” circling the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in Mecca counterclockwise seven times. This year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia attracted the lowest number of pilgrims ...

A waning gibbous moon appeared directly above the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia at dawn on Friday, creating a rare celestial alignment over Islam’s holiest site. Majed Abu Zahra, head of the Jeddah ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Vast crowds of robed Muslim faithful walk solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca’s Grand Mosque to begin the biggest hajj pilgrimage in several years, in the ...

The faith of up to 1.8 billion people, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, dictates each one of them pray five times a day in the direction of a small, cubic building in Saudi Arabia. This ...