The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured several images of the Insight lander on the Red Planet between 2018 and ...

A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date. Constructed from real data, the footage shows Beta Pictoris b—a planet 12 times the mass of ...

A time-lapse video captures Beta Pictoris b orbiting its host star about 63 light-years away from Earth. Credit: Jason Wang / Northwestern University Some space events happen too slowly to see, but a ...

Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in online and print publishing. She was named the Association of British Science Writers' Editor of the Year in 2023. Katy ...

It’s rare that we get to see exoplanets themselves. Most often, planets in other star systems are too small and too dim to be directly detected, so astronomers infer their presence based on their ...

BBC Studios has revealed some the technology used to film its latest natural history series, Frozen Planet II. The series is the sequel to the original Frozen Planet, which aired on the BBC in 2011.