Liam Dutton
Iceland volcano lava flow seen from space
As well as monitoring activity from sensors on the ground, Nasa satellites have been keeping an eye on Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano from space – providing some spectacular images.
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Nasa’s Orion ‘Mars ship’ launch postponed for 24 hours
Nasa’s test flight of a capsule that could eventually bring humans to deep-space destinations like Mars has been postponed after problems with wind and misfiring valves.
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Liam Dutton
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The hunt for Mars water: Nasa’s Maven enters orbit
Nasa’s Maven spacecraft arrives in orbit of Mars ahead of a year long mission to find out what happened to the Red Planet’s missing water.
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Liam Dutton
Earth from space: August 2014
During August, there have been some particularly good images of our planet taken by Nasa satellites from space.
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#supermoonselfie: the best selfies from around the globe
Star-gazers take selfies of the phenomenon known as the “supermoon” – an unusually large and bright moon when its orbit point is closest to the earth.
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Liam Dutton
A typhoon seen from space and sliced down the middle
Satellites now have an array of equipment on-board, allowing storms not only to be viewed from space, but sliced down the middle, with a side on profile view.
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Time to mine the moon, says European Space Agency
A key figure at the European Space Agency says we must look at how we exploit the moon’s resources before it is too late, as missions begin to map its surface and Nasa calls for bids to mine in space.
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Liam Dutton
Amazing images of earth from space
As satellites continuously orbit our planet, they cast an eye upon us, taking image after image of how the landscape below is changing. Here’s a collection of recent images from Nasa.
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Liam Dutton
Where are the oceans warm enough for hurricanes and typhoons to thrive?
As the northern hemisphere summer continues to heat up the land and oceans, it’s a time of year when the tropics become most fruitful in terms of delivering hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones.
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Did this planet collide with earth to form the moon?
Rocks brought back from the moon more than 40 years ago contain evidence of a Mars-sized planet that scientists believe crashed into earth and created the moon.
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How close are we to discovering alien life?
An alien world covered in cities and giant structures that reach into the heavens – science fiction, or is science on the verge of discovering extra-terrestrial life?
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Is there anybody out there? New planet could hold life
A new planet – similar size to the earth – could contain some life forms because it has the right temperatures to form water, scientists say.
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Liam Dutton
A volcano, cyclone, dust storm and Grand Canyon from space
As we go about our daily lives on the surface, satellites orbit the earth, constantly snapping images from space of our planet below.
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Beautiful images of solar flare released by Nasa
Nasa releases spectacular footage of a “graceful” flare erupting from the sun. The powerful burst of radiation took place on 2 April.
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Tom Clarke
Is there life in the oceans of Saturn’s icy moon?
A vast lake under the surface of Enceladus, Saturn’s icy moon, brings with it hopes of finding extra-terrestrial life.
