Stunning images of the Sun showing its surface bubbling with white-hot plasma are captured by a retired photography lecturer from his garden in Kent Paul Andrew, 66, of Dover, Kent captures the incredible images using a customised Lund 152 telescope The images show the tumultuous surface of our star, which is more than 90million miles away from … Read more
New images of British billionaire Sir James Dyson’s failed electric car project have been revealed, showing the seven-seat plug-in SUV in greater detail. The protoype, which has a claimed range of 600 miles on a single charge, is the only car built before the plans for an electric vehicle range were axed last October after … Read more
The time is 4pm on December 8, 1980, a mild day in New York. As John Lennon leaves his home on Central Park West, he pauses to autograph a record album for a 25-year-old former security guard named Mark David Chapman, without a suspicion in the world. The moment is caught on camera by Paul … Read more
‘Enough is enough’: Heartbreaking images reveal a a young seal fighting for its life after getting tangled in a discarded fishing net Galactica is a juvenile seal who was spotted in distress on a Norfolk beach She had got tangled in a fishing net which had ripped into her fleshy neck Vets cut away the … Read more
Skiing aside, there are myriad reasons to visit the Alps – not least that it is arguably one of the most picturesque environments on Earth. As this stunning portfolio of pictures shows. Our collection will transport you across the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe. One that stretches approximately … Read more
Around 10million self-taking tourists cram into Rome’s streets and around its ancient sites each year. But it wasn’t always so. These fascinating vintage pictures taken in 1956 show a far less hectic Eternal City. The black-and-white snaps were captured by photographer Allan Hailstone, from Coventry, on a trip to Rome as a schoolboy in August … Read more
Cold War spy satellite imagery is helping scientists track the decline of animals and their habitats in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years Images from the Cold War’s Corona programme imaged a region of Kazakhstan The photographs were declassified five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain Scientists have used them to track the impact of … Read more
Stunning locations captured by the finalists of the 2020 Landscape Photography Competition showcase the Earth’s beauty in a unique series of images. In Eric Melzer’s other-worldly ‘Solar Storm’, water ripples in eerily perfect formation around the Ivanpah Solar Station in California. John Kimwell Laluma’s incredible ‘Density’ captures the courtyard of a Macau apartment building from … Read more
These rare black-and-white images chart the history of one of America’s most short-lived airlines. They show the fleet and passengers of National Parks Airways (NPA), which operated for a mere 10 years, between 1927 and 1937, in Utah, Idaho and Montana. It would eventually capitalise on the boom in Yellowstone National Park tourism and ferry … Read more
Nine million attempts to view child abuse images online were made from the UK in just ONE MONTH of the coronavirus lockdown, new figures reveal There were at least 8.8 million attempts in four weeks between March and April But the Internet Watch Foundation warns the true figure could be even higher Bosses plea with … Read more