The New Frontier

Series introduction and the study of Earth from orbit. The current and planned series of satellites and observations to better know our own planet.

The study of our most influential partner, learning more about our closest neighbour and a planned return to the Moon.

Mercury and Venus: two planets that generate more questions than answers as we delve deeper into their workings.

The enigmatic planet Mars, now under robotic scrutiny with our sights set on a manned mission soon.

Scientists and engineers have managed to land on a comet, knowledge of these celestial marauders may drive our industrial expansion into deep space.

Beyond the asteroid belt lay the gas giants, some can be seen with the naked eye, others only glimpsed once by a passing probe. We are again sending c...

These are the Moons of the gas giants. Each a unique and mysterious world of its own. Some have oceans of water, geysers of Sulphur or atmospheres of...

It powers the machinery of nature; our weather, encourages and sustains life on land and at sea. When it sets in the West it reveals to us its many bi...

As scientists and astronomers peer closer at nearby stars with ever more fidelity they are discovering planets; exo planets, worlds outside our own so...

The night sky is a time machine. The further we look out into the universe, the further back in time we reach. What we see in the night sky is only a...