Space

Hidden gems: 8 beautiful Hubble Space Telescope images you probably haven't seen before © NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Team

Hubble's hidden gems 8 beautiful images you probably haven't seen before

How can I watch tonight's Lyrid meteor display? (The London Millennium Footbridge is illuminated under the stars on a clear night on 21 April 2020 in London, England © Simon Robling/Getty Images)

How do I watch tonight’s Lyrid meteor display?

If we were to look at the Universe as a whole, what state of matter would we say it’s in? © Getty Images

If we were to look at the Universe as a whole, what state of matter would we say it’s in?

NASA astronaut launches to resume in United States from May © Alex Gallardo/AP

NASA to resume launching astronauts from US soil

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Science Focus Education Pack Our Solar System

The shape of this star's orbit was predicted by Einstein but never proven – until now © L Calcada/ESO/PA

Star’s rosette orbit around supermassive black hole ‘proves Einstein right’

Closeup of a moonrock brought to earth by Apollo 12 © Getty Images

The origin of the Moon The key discovery that helped us understand how the Moon formed

How did the Moon form? © iStock

The origin of the Moon A timeline of discovery

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The origin of the Moon How it formed and how we found out

Portrait of George Darwin © Getty Images

The great scientists who uncovered the origin of the Moon

The Voyager mission and our Pale Blue Dot: How the most famous picture in science came to be © NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Voyager mission and our Pale Blue Dot: How the most famous picture in science came to be

Looking back at Spitzer’s greatest photos © NASA/Spitzer

Looking back at Spitzer’s greatest photos

Apollo 13: Astronauts recall tense moments on stricken spacecraft (The Apollo 13 lunar module photographed from the command module just after the lunar module was jettisoned, about an hour before splashdown © AP)

Apollo 13 "We never got to a point where we said, ‘Well, we’re going to die’”

Merging stars cause brightest supernova ever seen © Northwestern University/PA

Merging stars cause brightest supernova ever seen

The quest for quantum gravity: why being wrong is essential to science © Imperial College London

The quest for quantum gravity Why being wrong is essential to science