1/2 Today’s solar eclipse put on an incredible show across Europe. The Moon passed between Earth and the Sun, creating totality across parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, while the UK saw a deep partial eclipse.

Why is Britain's weather so unpredictable? Its position on the Atlantic puts it directly in the path of moisture-rich westerly winds, shifting air masses and the jet stream. Higher ground then forces moist air upwards, producing even more rainfall.

A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) feeding on buddleia, one of the best nectar plants for attracting butterflies into the garden. Painted Ladies are remarkable long-distance migrants. Unlike many British butterflies, they cannot survive our winters in large numbers,

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the Universe. Their extraordinary gravity comes not simply from their physical size, but from immense amounts of mass compressed into remarkably small regions of space. Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the...

People don't realize how absurd this view actually is. A camera. On a robot. On Mars Built by humans on a planet 140 million miles away, launched on a rocket. landed using a sky crane, and now driving across an alien desert taking pictures so detailed you can count the rocks.