Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (a)

An image of a portion of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko obtained on 30 October, 2014 by Rosetta's OSIRIS…

Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (b)

A deliberately saturated version of this image to bring out details in a shadowed region of…

The ‘dark side’ of the comet

A rare glimpse at the dark side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Light backscattered from dust particles in…

Solstice: Mimicking the Moon

When Galileo first observed Venus displaying a crescent phase, he excitedly wrote to Kepler (in anagram)…

A hazy nebula

This new image from Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 showcases NGC 1501, a complex planetary…

Cologne from space

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of Cologne in Germany at the end of his…

Soyuz TMA-13M crew

From left: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, Roscosmos cosmonaut Max Suraev and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman in…

Rosetta’s journey

A summary of Rosetta’s journey – from its launch on 2 March 2004 - to the…

3D-printing a lunar base

Could astronauts one day be printing rather than building a base on the Moon? In 2013…

3D-printing a lunar base

Could astronauts one day be printing rather than building a base on the Moon? In 2013…