The image above shows rock formations within the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. It was from deep within the rock formations shown here that scientists extracted a 518-metre-long core sample that proved the correlation …
The image above shows an artists’ impression of the deployed InSight spacecraft on the surface of Mars. The craft was launched from the west coast of the USA on May 5. 2018, after a two-year …
The image above shows an artist’s impression of the impact between Earth and a Mars-sized object in an event that is widely accepted as the mechanism that formed Earth’s Moon only about 100 million years …
The image above shows the Milky Way stretching across the sky, with Sgr A*, the area of space that contains both the center of the galaxy and a super massive black hole, directly above the …
It is known that red dwarf stars account for about 75% of all the stars in the Milky Way, and astronomers generally agree that red dwarfs are likely to occur in similar numbers in most …
The image above shows detail of the Leading Arm, an enormous stream of gas and dust that connects the Milky Way and its two closest satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Note the …
The image above shows a fresh crater on Mars surrounded by a blanket of ejected material; as impacts on Mars go, this particular example is very young, having occurred sometime between January 2014 and August …
At the time of writing, the news of the death of Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA has reverberated around the world. Widely regarded as the greatest cosmologist of all time, Hawking was the Director …
The image above shows the interior structure of Europa, a major moon of the planet Jupiter, but the smallest of its four Galilean moons. The band of blue in the picture depicts a 100 km-thick …
Photographing a supernova in the process of erupting is notoriously difficult to do because it is impossible to predict the exact moment of the phenomenon, and its very first burst of light. In fact, the …
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