Iain Todd

Science journalist

Iain Todd is BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Content Editor. He fell in love with the night sky when he caught his first glimpse of Orion, aged 10.

Recent articles by Iain Todd

Tim Peake supporting England against Scotland during the 2016 6-nations rugby tournament

Tim Peake’s 7 best moments on the ISS

Aerial view of Westcott Venture Park, where the National Propulsion Test Facility is to be built. Credit: Westcott Venture park

New investment in UK spaceflight announced

The Diamond Ring © Melanie ThorneEDIT

Astrophotography

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 shortlist revealed

The Last Man On The Moon is a documentary film about Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan.

Film and TV reviews

Film review: The Last Man On The Moon

Images by the Cassini spacecraft show features in Titan’s sea Ligeia Mare that change over time. Are these ‘magic islands’ caused by fizzy bubbles? Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell

Fizzy lakes on Titan?

HowTheLightGetsIn 2016

HowTheLightGetsIn 2016: our top picks

Left: a section of the Illustris simulation showing the distribution of dark matter, with a width and height of 350 million lightyears and a thickness of 300,000 light years. Galaxies are found in the small, white, high-density dots. Right: The same data showing the distribution of normal matter. Credit: Markus Haider / Illustris collaboration

Black holes blast matter into cosmic voids

Roger Griffin, Donald Lynden-Bell and Nick Woolf stand before the Large Binocular Telescope

Film and TV reviews

Film review: Star Men

CentaurMAIN

Could comets threaten life on Earth?

Lunar scientist Dr James Carpenter reveals ESA's vision for future travel to and exploration of the Moon at the first Colin Pillinger Memorial Lecture. Image Credit: Philippa Walker/University of Bristol

Film and TV reviews

An Hour On The Moon

In the latest podcast, the BBC Sky at Night Magazine podcast discuss the date of the late Patrick Moore's estate.

What next for Patrick Moore’s house?

The central parts of the Milky Way, seen using the near-infrared NACO instrument on ESO’s Very Large telescope.
Credit: ESO/S. Gillessen et al

Radio waves could detect hidden stars

NuSTAR has captured a high-energy X-ray view (magenta) of the center of the Milky Way. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA captures screams of zombie stars

The creation of a runaway galaxy. Image Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics

Astronomers discover runaway galaxies

In this ALMA image of NGC 253, dense, star-forming areas are seen in yellow, surrounded by much less dense clouds of CO (shown in red). Image Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); A. Leroy

ALMA sheds new light on starburst galaxies