Earth for us is a huge place. Just think of the 11,388 mile journey from London to Auckland in New Zealand taking 23 hours time and flying at an average speed of 500mph. It’s a big old World we live…
An international team of astronomers, co-led by Dr Rita Tojeiro of the University of St Andrews, have produced the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of the Universe, using distant galaxies. Hundreds of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) collaborated…
Fans of the Alien franchise will no doubt draw parallels with the organism spotted on a Nasa Mars photo this week. The raw image taken by NASA Curiosity somewhere in July was hugely discussed in the Facebook group ‘Journey to the…
I’d encourage everyone to watch this amazing 19 minute video documenting astronauts’ life changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside (aka a ‘Overview Effect’). The Overview Effect was first described by author Frank White in 1987 and is…
A stunning collection of the moon taken from photographers from all corners of our amazing planet. The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to…
Every frame in this stunning video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station at night. All credit goes to the crews on board the ISS. Music by John Murphy – Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
