Liam Dutton
Monday’s supermoon is biggest in almost 70 years
All eyes will be on the skies on Monday, as the biggest full supermoon in almost 70 years takes place.
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4m
Superstar physicist tackles the complexities of time
Carlo Rovelli’s first book ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ was one of the fastest-selling science books on record. Now, he’s back to explore the mysteries of time.
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Liam Dutton
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Tom Clarke
The solar eclipse: how you can view it
On Friday we will see the deepest eclipse of the Sun so far this century. For most of us, of course, the view will be ruined by cloud, fog and rain just as it was for the total eclipse in 1999.
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Liam Dutton
As seen from space: erupting volcano and frozen Niagara Falls
The past month has seen stunning images of our planet captured from space by Nasa. I’ve picked some of the best ones, with a little explanation of what they show.
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Liam Dutton
Earth from the window of the International Space Station
Stunning images of earth from space, taken by astronauts from the window of the International Space Station.
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Tom Clarke
New images of Pluto are about to reveal the true face of the dwarf planet
Nasa’s New Horizons probe is to start photographing the icy, mysterious world of Pluto, to prepare itself for a historic encounter in July.
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Tom Clarke
Beagle 2 – a very British space mission
As Colin Pillinger’s widow Dr Judith Pillinger put it this morning, her husband no doubt would have described it as having “hit the crossbar” rather than missing the goal completely.
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Tom Clarke
Orion’s launch – another giant leap in human space flight
Today’s Orion spacecraft launch is unmanned – but it heralds a return to US astronauts voyaging independently in space.
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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.
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Tom Clarke
Do we finally know what followed the Big Bang?
If true, Monday’s result from a radio telescope in the Antarctic is one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of science – but for the time being it remains a pretty big if.
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Liam Dutton
Our planet from space – January 2014
Nasa’s Earth Observatory has a stunning collection of images and I thought I pull a few of them together and explain what they show.
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Liam Dutton
Happy 15th birthday International Space Station!
The International Space Station (ISS), the bright white light that many of us have dashed outdoors to spot zipping across the night sky, has just turned 15 years old.
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Tom Clarke
Professor Peter Higgs shares the Nobel Prize for physics
There will always be controversy about who deserved the prize for the discovery of the Higgs boson. It may explain the reluctance of Peter Higgs himself to appear in public.
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Liam Dutton
Our world viewed from space
Nasa’s earth observation project offers a huge selection of pictures showing some of the best imagery available. I thought I’d pull a few of the more recent ones together and describe what they show.
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Tom Clarke
Spectacular failure of tried-and-tested Russian rocket
After almost 400 launches, the Proton-M rocket is a workhorse of the Russian space effort. But dramatic video shows its latest take-off ends in a ball of flames.