Brilliant Interactive map of the Solar System
A brilliant, easy to use interactive map of the Solar System, letting you see how the planets move around the sun.
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Webb Space Telescope finds Water around a Comet
Is this where Earth got its water from? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected water in a rare main-belt comet.
The Origins of Water found to a Time Before The Sun
credit ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis.
New Technique used to spot nearby Exoplanets
Breakthrough technique used to directly depiction nearby exoplanets in habitable-zone.
When Exoplanets Collide
This artist’s concept illustrates a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris.
First Earth-Size Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone discovered
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finds first Earth-size exoplanet in the Habitable Zone.
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for work on Cosmology
Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, along with Canadian-American James Peebles, have been jointly awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for their work in cosmology.
New Clues to Origins of Earth’s Oceans
The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our “blue marble” to support an astounding array of life, is clearer with new research into comets.
The first ever direct Observation of an Exoplanet
Cutting-edge VLTI GRAVITY instrument using optical interferometry, breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, by revealing details of a storm-wracked exoplanet.
You live here
A gentle reminder. You live here…