Olympus Mons on Mars (the largest mountain in the Solar System) is so enormous that its diameter exceeds that of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

The eruption of Stromboli volcano, which caused volcanic lightning

A view of Earth taken by cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov from the International Space Station

The Nile river at night, as seen from the ISS

Wild horses in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile

A seismograph left on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission

Lunar earthquakes have proved to be a fairly common occurrence: between 1972 and 1977 alone, 62 ‘lunar quakes’ were recorded

A stunning view of clouds from aboard the ISS

Close-up images of Martian rocks taken by the Perseverance rover

Image taken on 11 April 2024

An image of the Orion Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope

Large-scale view of the region known as the Baghdad Trench on Enceladus

Comet R3 PanSTARRS and the Orion Nebula

In this image of Comet R3, taken by the PanSTARRS instrument, two distinct tails are visible: a short dust tail pointing upwards in the image, and a long, wavy ion tail extending towards the top left-hand corner

This animation shows the orbit of the black hole Gaia BH3 (shown in red) and its companion star (shown in blue) around their common centre of mass

The sun’s reflections on the River Euphrates give it a polished silvery sheen

A tardigrade, known for its extraordinary resilience to harsh conditions, moving across a glass surface

The Gemini Telescope on Mauna Kea bathed in the light of the green aurora, Hawaii

Drifting clouds in Saturn’s atmosphere, captured by the Cassini spacecraft

A faint crescent of Earth, captured by the Rosetta spacecraft in 2009

Seen from space, Earth looks rather fragile compared to the vast emptiness around it, reminding us of how important it is to look after it