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Welcome to BOOK OF SPACE
Earth • From astronaut snaps taken with handheld cameras to advanced satellite imagery that enables us to predict natural disasters, discover the planet as you’ve never seen it before
Inside the Sun • The giant star that keeps us all alive…
It’s the Sun, but not as we know it
Solar eclipse • Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun
All about the Moon • It took a walk on the Moon to reveal our natural satellite’s many secrets
THE FIRST MOON LANDING • Nearly 50 years ago, on 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person in history to set foot on the surface of a celestial body other than Earth, marking the culmination of a decade of work
Mercury • Compared to the other planets, we know relatively little about the smallest planet in our Solar System
Venus • Discovering just how similar this planet actually is to Earth…
Mars • Other than the fact that it’s a planet in our Solar System, what do we really know about Mars?
The spiders from Mars • These aren’t David Bowie’s backing group, but creepy patterns found in Martian ice
Is Titan Earth’s toxic twin? • It’s bitterly cold and shrouded in a choking natural ‘smog’, but Titan is more like Earth than you’d think
Weather on Jupiter • The forecast is raging storms and swirling winds
Jupiter • We take a look inside the most massive planet in our Solar System
Saturn • Only Jupiter is larger than this gas giant, best known for its ring system
Uranus • Seventh planet from the Sun, thirdlargest and fourth most massive in the Solar System. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered by telescope
Neptune • The smallest and coldest of the four gas giants, as well as the most distant from the Sun, Neptune is the windiest planet in our Solar System
Neptune’s boomerang moon • Meet the natural satellite with the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the Solar System
Mercury’s orbit • The Solar System’s innermost planet travels through a curvature in the fabric of space-time
The secrets of transits • From the planet Venus to alien worlds hundreds of light years away, transits help inform us about our place in the universe
Pluto • The elusive Planet X that became an ex-planet and still has many X factors
Europa • Our greatest chance of finding life is possibly on this moon of Jupiter
Life on Titan • Is there life among the chaotic, carbon-based chemistry of this ice-cold world?
Dwarf planets • What is a dwarf planet and how is it distinguished from other celestial bodies?
Auroras on other planets • Find out what causes these magnificent light shows on the other planets in our Solar System
Planet killers • Remnants of failed planets, asteroids are dry, dusty and atmosphereless rocks drifting through space
Alien Earths • Discover the five strangest exoplanets ever found
Astronaut training
Inside a spacesuit • What’s so special about an astronaut’s outfit that it can keep them alive in space?
Underwater astronaut training • The best place on Earth to prepare for zero gravity is a swimming pool
SURVIVE THE COSMOS LIFE IN SPACE • Humans have had a presence in space in some form or another for half a century, but learning to live in the cosmos has been a steep learning curve. We take a look at what it’s like to live in space, and how we’ve adapted over the years
On board the International Space Station • What’s it like to live in space?
CURIOSITY’S GREATEST DISCOVERIES • The most sophisticated rover sent to another planet has found that Mars was once...
