Ezzy Pearson

Ezzy Pearson is the News Editor of BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Her first book about the history of robotic planetary landers is out now from The History Press.

Recent articles by Ezzy Pearson

Star Diary astronomy podcast. Find out what's in the night sky, March 2021

Star Diary Podcast

Star Diary Podcast What's in the night sky, August 2021

An artist's depiction of the Juno spacecraft in orbit above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter

Credit: NASA

New radiation limits for astronauts could make spaceflight fairer

Solar activity over cycles 22-24
Credit: David Hathaway, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center

Radio Astronomy Podcast Will solar activity threaten future space missions?

Lego ISS

Gift guide Astronomy Father's Day presents

A model of the Millenium Falcon starship on display at The Star Wars Identities exhibition, 29 January 2021 in Singapore. Credit: Suhaimi Abdullah / Getty Images

How realistic are Star Wars planets?

Ingenuity looks down at its own shadow

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter makes first powered flight from Mars

What are stars? Credit: Eric Lowenbach / Getty Images

Astronomy explained What are stars?

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, pictured in the capsule of his Vostok 1 spacecraft, 12 April 1961. Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Spaceflight history Yuri Gagarin: the first human in space

NASA scientists installing 1 of 3 Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) on the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Strange stories from the history of spaceflight

The Apollo 14 lunar module on the Moon. Credit: Science & Society Picture Library / Getty Images

Apollo 14 Marking 50 years since the 3rd crewed moonlanding

Commercial ventures are opening up more possibilities for space tourism to become a reality. Credit: 3DSculptor/Getty Images

Want to go to space? Here’s how you can

The 'skull-like' imprint left behind by the Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Philae’s second comet landing site found after 6 years

Aurora over Scotland; Credit: VisitScotland, Discover Fraserburgh, Fiona McRae

How to see the aurora in the UK

Coronal Mass Ejection as viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/SDO

Solar Cycle 25 has begun, say solar astronomers