All Astronomy


Solar flare

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2015

On 11th March, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a significant burst of radiation known as…

Back in time to discover farthest galaxy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2015

Data collected from several space telescopes has allowed astronomers to locate the most distant gal…

Dwarf star explains water origins

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2015

By using data from a dwarf star, scientists found evidence that water could be delivered to Earth-l…

The mosaic of the Caloris basin, Mercury

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2015

This mosaic of the Caloris basin (main image) on the surface of the planet is an enhanced colour c…

NASA's MESSENGER mission has come to an end

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2015

NASA’s MESSENGER mission has come to an end.

Hiding in plain sight

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

What was the fate of the compact massive galaxies that populated the early Universe? This has been …

Capturing elusive anti-atoms

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

For the first time, scientists at CERN have measured the charge of an anti-atom to high precision. …

Martian anti-freeze makes liquid water possible

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2015

Data from NASA’s rover – Curiosity – has shown that liquid water could exist on Mars. !--more-- A …

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it’s a snake...seriously, a flying snake.

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Apr 2015

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it’s a snake...seriously, a flying snake. Jake Socha, professor a…

Underground ocean found on Jupiter’s largest moon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2015

Scientists have used a new approach to find evidence for a subsurface saltwater ocean on Jupiter's …

Chemistry in the perfect coffee

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2015

Computational chemistry and coffee; not – you might imagine – natural bedfellows. But Theoretical a…

New approach puts kids in space!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2015

Crossing the traditional boundaries of education and active research – the Langton Star Centre is n…

Japan aims for deep impact

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2015

The Japanese space agency has launched a mission to return samples collected from deep within an as…

Chancellor puts money where mouth is for mission to Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2015

In his autumn statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has made clear Government’s int…

Hydrogen detected three billion light years

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2015

Astronomers have detected faint signals of hydrogen gas at a record distance of three billion light…

We're living in the Quantum Age, says Brian Clegg

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2014

In his latest book, Brian Clegg looks at how the physics of the very small has transformed our live…

The answer is in the intergalactic wind

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2014

Astronomers have observed the first direct evidence that an intergalactic “wind” is stripping galax…

Philae to start drilling

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2014

Scientists have started drilling into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko amid fears that the battery a…

We are on the comet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2014

Philae has now stabilised on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after landing  not once; not twice but…

Countdown to Rosetta’s comet landing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Nov 2014

The Rosetta space mission will attempt the first ever landing on the surface of a comet on 12th Nov…