NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars this week.

Pluto's largest moon Charon is proving to be a magnificent world in its own right. The latest images from NASA's New Horizons flyby mission -- the highest resolution color images of Charon to date -- show a moon much more alive than our own. “We thought the probability of seeing such interesting features on this satellite of a world at the far edge of our solar system was low,” Ross Beyer, an affiliate of the New Horizons Geology...

What's more rare than a supermoon total lunar eclipse? How about a supermoon total lunar eclipse over a lightning storm.

The sight that had everyone looking skyward in late September is captured in a single panoramic photo.

They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, 2 rats, flies and several plants and fungi. All passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive. Strelka went on to have six puppies with a male dog named Pushok who participated in many ground-based space experiments, but never made it into space. One of the pups was named Pushinka (Пушинка, "Fluffy") and was presented to President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. A

UCL is the only UK host of a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF). On top of this, it has a long tradition in astronomy, geology and planetary science.

Asterism in the constellation Pisces

Globular cluster in Ophiucus

The moon is particularly beautiful tonight. Hopefully there will be no clouds during the eclipse between Sunday and Monday, so more shots can be taken :-)

A great swathe of Pluto that features a strange rippling terrain is perhaps the highlight of the latest image release from the New Horizons mission.

NASA just released their new images of Pluto and they are stunning. The header image above features Pluto’s crescent and was captured on July 14th by New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging (MVIC) camera and downlinked on September 13. In it we see the incredible Plutonian landscape backlit by the Sun. 

High above sea level - and far from light pollution - Tibet offers one of the most breathtaking night skies in the world. A collection of photos by Jeff Dai.

A range of articles covering cosmic phenomena of all kinds, ranging from minor craters on the Moon to entire galaxies.

Asterism in the constellation Camelopardalis.

Two rare blue stars ionise the gas in the Prawn Nebula, allowing it to emit its own light.

Cassini has once again turned to Enceladus, the enigmatic moon of Saturn.

Exploration of the Planet Mars - missions, videos, images and information

Globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus.

The Twin Jet Nebula, also known as PN M2-9, was discovered by the German-American astronomer Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. Ordinary planetary nebulae have one star at their center, bipolar nebulae like the Twin Jet Nebula have two. The two stars at the heart of the nebula circle one another roughly every 100 years.

Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is well known for its dramatic dusty lanes of dark material. Hubble’s new observations, using its most advanced instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3, are the most detailed ever made of this galaxy. They have been combined here in a multi-wavelength image which reveals never-before-seen detail in the dusty portion of the galaxy.