Alien Worlds and Landscapes

Computer-generated extraterrestrial scenes, featuring mysterious planets, foreign atmospheres, and imaginative landscapes.

Surface of Venus. Computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of the planet Venus, showing clouds of sulphuric acid obscuring the Sun. Ve...

Lit by a distant, fading star this extrasolar planet seen through the misty horizon of this frozen moon is slowly cooling and begining to lose its atmosphere into the cold reaches of space

An extraterrestrial civilization has lit the night side of its planet

Surface of Venus. Computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of the planet Venus, showing clouds of sulphuric acid obscuring the Sun. Ve...

Surface of Titan, computer artwork. This is Saturn's largest moon and the only moon to have a planet-like atmosphere. The atmosphere consists of nitro...

A shuttle in the process of landing is observed by a little explorer.

Three moons and spaceships in blue deep space.

Camelopardalis star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Giraffe constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows a galaxy known as NGC 6872 in the constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). Its unusual shape is caused by its interactions with the smaller galaxy that can be seen just above NGC 6872, called IC 4970. They both lie roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth. From tip to tip, NGC 6872 measures over 500,000 light-years across, making it the second largest spiral galaxy discovered to date. In terms of size it is beaten only by NGC 262, a galaxy that measures a mind-boggling 1.3 million light-years in diameter! To put that into perspective, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, measures between 100,000 and 120,000 light-years across, making NGC 6872 about five times its size. The upper left spiral arm of NGC 6872 is visibly distorted and is populated by star-forming regions, which appear blue on this image. This may have been be caused by IC 4970 recently passing through this arm — although

Circinus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Compass constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Lone Human Astronaut Exploring the Surface of Mars

Reticulum star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Reticle constellation, The Small Net Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Grus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Crane constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Octans star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Octans Hadleianus, Octant constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

A spacecraft flying through the rings of an exoplanet.

Dark dunes made of hydrocarbons are shaped by the moon's winds on the surface of Titan

Cancer star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Crab constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Telescopium star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Telescope constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Ophiuchus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Serpentarius, Serpent bearer Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Leo Minor star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Lesser Lion constellation, Little Lion Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Leo Minor star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Lesser Lion constellation, Little Lion Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Surface of Titan

Delphinus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Dolphin constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Surface of Mercury. Computer artwork showing the surface of the planet Mercury with the Sun overhead. At its closest, Mercury is only 46 million kilom...

Equuleus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Pony constellation, Little Horse Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Ursa Minor star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Little Bear, Polaris, North Star Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Mensa star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Table Mountain constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Cassiopeia star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Cassiopeia Chair Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Lacerta star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Lizard constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Centaurus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Cepheus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, King Cepheus constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Big Dipper, Ursa Major star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space Elements of this image furnished by NASA

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way Galaxy bringing closure to a decade of speculation. Scientists weren't sure if the object was a planet or a brown dwarf. Hubble's analysis shows that the object is 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, confirming that it is indeed a planet. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the planet is more than twice the age of Earth's 4.5 billion years. It formed around a young, sun-like star barely 1 million years after our universe's birth in the Big Bang. The ancient planet resides in an unlikely, rough neighborhood. It orbits a peculiar pair of burned-out stars in the crowded core cluster of more than 100,000 stars. Its very existence provides evidence that the first planets formed rapidly, within a billion years of the Big Bang, and leads astronomers to conclude that planets may be very abundant in our galaxy. This artist's concept depicts the planet with a view of a rich star filled sky

Lupus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Wolf constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Crux star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Crucis Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Monoceros star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Unicorn constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Water plumes on Enceladus, illustration

Beautiful blue methane rivers flow on this alien planet with two moons.

Surface of Titan, computer artwork. This is Saturn's largest moon and the only moon to have a planet-like atmosphere. The atmosphere consists of nitro...

Close up of planet sun system in your hand. Sun system

Vulpecula star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Fox constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Delphinus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Dolphin constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Alien life, computer artwork. Aquatic life on Jupiter's moon Europa.

Norma star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Carpenter's Square constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Alien red planet canyon landscape and big planet, 3D Illustration. Elements for this image is furnished by NASA

Exoplanet Gliese 667c, illustration

Artist's concept of how the surface of Titan may have appeared to the European Space Agency's Huygens probe when it emerged from the satellite's ubiquitous hydrocarbon haze about 12 miles above Titan's surface

Uranus seen from Ariel, illustration

Galaxy and debris in outer space

In 1989 the space explorer Voyager 2 became the first manmade spacecraft to visit Neptune

A lone astronaut drills into the regolith of Gale Crater with only a passing dust devil as company

Humans terraforming the lunar surface.

Planet scene, computer illustration.

Alien androids using probes to explore an alien exoplanet.

Puppis star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Poop Deck constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Dead humanoid remains lying near a crashed UFO site in a desert region.

Phosphine on Venus, conceptual illustration

An Earth colony on an alien moon that is forever frozen, but rich in mineral deposits. Especially adapted androids are used to do all manual labor both above and below the moons surface.

Amber sand desert with terraformed moon or Earth from terraformed moon or exoplanet.

Artist's concept of the surface of Venus

Spaceships landing close to a human exoplanet colony.

Space exploration, computer artwork.

Space vehicle, illustration.

Arid exoplanet, illustration

Alien Life On An Exoplanet Star System

Exploration of Venus, illustration

Crater star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Cup constellation Elements of this image furnished by NASA

This is a screen shot from a high-definition simulated movie of Mojave Crater on Mars, based on images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This artist's concept is of the one-million-year-old star system called UX Tau A, approximately 450 light-years away. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showed a gap in the dusty planet-forming disk swirling around the system's central sun-like star.

Human astronaut explorers exploring an exoplanets surface.

Beautiful shot of earths atmosphere 3d illustrated

A starship visits an asteroid near the planet Mercury.

Earth observation taken by Expedition 68 crew. iss068e011266 (Oct. 1, 2022) --- Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada (at top), and Seattle, Washington (lower right) are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above North America. Credit: NASA/Bob Hines

Humanity exploring and terraforming the planet Mars.

Space special effects composite with Earth, comet and crescent moon

An astronaut looking at a nearby exoplanet from a cave entrance.

Exploring Mars

astronaut space spaceship ufo

A light fog forms in a desiccated gully in Gale Crater, Mars

Alien androids using probes to explore an alien exoplanets moon.

Kepler 16 is a binary star system with an M-type dwarf and a K-type star orbiting their centre of mass with 0.22 astronomical units of separation. A p...

Spaceman and rocket in endless universe

Surface of Venus. Computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of the planet Venus, showing clouds of sulphuric acid obscuring the Sun. Ve...

Aerial view of a saline with demarcation strip, Aigues Mortes, Camargue, Provence, France, Europe

Impact Crater and Heat Shield of Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, Mars

Spacecraft landing on asteroid, computer illustration.

A planetary ring orbits around a blue planet.

The landscape of Titan, one of Saturn's moons.

Spacecrafts flies over ocean. Terraformed moon at the horizon.

explorer team at a volcano An explorer team at a volcano. 3D illustration Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 16789755

Illustration of the first human footprint on sandy and rocky Planet Mars landscape.

Mankind colonizing and terraforming the planet Mars.

Asteroid approaching Earth, computer artwork.

Venus' Maxwell Montes are among the highest, most precipitous mountain ranges in the solar system

Artist's concept of an alien scrap yard

Space craft landing on a planet in outer space, computer illustration.

Artist's concept of Earth's planetary rings over Guatemala.

Planet Erde im Weltraum mit Mond, Atmosphäre und Sonnenlicht Planet earth in outer space with moon, atmosphere and sunlight Copyright: xZoonar.com/ChristophxBurgstedtx 22602829

A future astronaut is observing the eruption of one of Triton's giant cryogeysers

Amalthea is a moon of Jupiter, the third closest to the planet at 181365 km away (about 2.6 Jupiter radii from the centre of the planet). At just 250 ...

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