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 due out in October from The History Press.

Recent articles by Ezzy Pearson

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

OSIRIS Rex approaches asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS REx touches down on asteroid Bennu

TheRightStuff

Review: The Right Stuff (2020)

Robert Yowell

Interview: Getting The Right Stuff right

A view of Mars's moon Deimos captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 21 February 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Deimos: the strange orbit of Mars’s moon

Scientists have found similarities in the shapes of channels created on Mars (right) and those formed by glacier meltwater in Earth’s Arctic region (left). Credit: Cal-Tech CTX mosaic and MAXAR/Esri

Mars valleys may have been formed by melting glaciers

Venus’s northern hemisphere, as seen by NASA’s Magellan probe. Credit: NASA/JPL

Venus The search for life on the hellish planet

The Local Group of galaxies only contains three spirals, our own Milky Way, M31 and M33. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library

The Local Group: a guide to our galaxy’s neighbourhood

Butterfly Nebula

11 nebulae that look like animals

A Thorne-Zytkow Object: a neutron star trapped inside a red giant. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada,

5 hypothetical stars astronomers have yet to discover