Technological advancements have allowed us to peer back to the very dawn of time to spy on the earliest galaxies, while we’re also getting closer to solving the secrets of the dark universe with newly launched missions like Euclid. Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope continue to amaze with their deep-reaching imagery of galactic phenomena, while astronauts are training hard to return to the Moon and gearing up for Mars exploration in the near future. Inside this year’s All About Space Annual, you’ll blast off on a journey from low-Earth orbit all the way to the deepest reaches of the cosmos.
ALL ABOUT SPACE Annual
All About Space Annual (2025)
SOLAR SYSTEM • Discover the secrets of our fascinating planetary system
MAGNETIC FIELDS ON THE SUN COULD SOLVE A LONG-STANDING SOLAR HEATING MYSTERY • Scientists still aren’t sure why the corona is so much hotter than the Sun’s surface
THE SUN’S EFFECT ON THE PLANETS • Whether stripping them away or lighting them up, the atmospheres of our Solar System’s worlds are continually shaped by the output of our star
VENUS EARTH’S EVIL TWIN • Venus is a veritable hellscape that you wouldn’t want to pick as a summer destination
INSIDE VENUS • What makes up this hellishly hot world?
EARTH VS VENUS • Sometimes called ‘Earth’s twin’, Venus is a very different world to ours
HOW VENUS’ PAST COULD BECOME EARTH’S FUTURE • Could our home planet turn equally barren and inhospitable?
IS VENUS’ RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE EFFECT A WARNING TO EARTH?
VENUS IN ART AND MYTHOLOGY
THE DAVINCI PROBE: GETTING THE DROP ON VENUS
APOPHIS WILL COME TO EARTH IN 2029, AND IT COULD MEET SOME TINY SPACECRAFT • Scientists have unveiled three concepts for tiny spacecraft that could voyage from Earth to meet the asteroid in April 2029
HOW IS WATER FORMING ON THE MOON? • Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery to explain the origin of water ice. Could water on the lunar surface be forming due to high-energy electrons from Earth?
WATER ON THE MOON
HOW THE MOON ENCOUNTERS EARTH’S MAGNETOTAIL • The Moon travels right through this part of our planet’s magnetosphere
WHERE DID THE MOON GET ITS WATER FROM? • There are a number of theories explaining the presence of water on the Moon
LONG AGO, A LAKE ON MARS MAY HAVE BEEN SPRAWLING WITH MICROBES • Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago
THE ROVER’S SUITE • Curiosity has a range of instruments on board to investigate Mars
KING of the SOLAR SYSTEM • JUPITER IS THE BIGGEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM BY FAR. HERE’S SOME ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT OUR COLOSSAL NEIGHBOUR
SECRETS OF SATURN • SATURN IS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM’S RINGED WONDER. HERE’S WHAT EVERY ASTRONOMY ENTHUSIAST SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT
SATURN’S MOON TITAN MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPORT LIFE AFTER ALL • Titan’s ocean has a volume 12 times that of all Earth’s oceans, but it may be barren of life as we know it
TRUE-COLOUR IMAGES REVEAL THAT URANUS AND NEPTUNE ARE SIMILAR BLUES • Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to true colour, those of Neptune were stretched and enhanced, making them too blue
BEYOND PLUTO • From Planet X to objects frozen in time – what truly lurks outside the Solar System’s chaotic frontier
WORLDS BEYOND PLUTO
MAPPING THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
OUR EYES ON THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
PLANET NINE’S ORBITAL PATH • How we think this world dances around the Sun
WHAT COULD THIS OTHER WORLD BE MADE OF? • Here’s what we know about the potential ninth planet
DEBATE: IS IT LIKELY THAT ANOTHER PLANET EXISTS? • Scientists are...