Astronomy news

NASA’s VIPER rover will search for water ice at the Moon’s south pole. Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter

NASA’s VIPER rover to seek water ice at Moon’s south pole

King Alfred's Tower, Cranborne Chase AONB. Copyright: Paul Howell at Pictor Images

Cranborne Chase becomes UK International Dark Sky Reserve

Spacesuit engineer Amy Ross (left) and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (second from left) watch spacesuit engineer Kristine Davis wearing a prototype of NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), 15 October 2019 at NASA headquarters in Washington. Dustin Gohmert (right), Orion Crew Survival Systems Project Manager, sports the Orion Crew Survival System suit, Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky).

A look at the NASA Artemis, SpaceX Crew Dragon and Virgin Galactic spacesuits

Alexei Leonov pictured during the Voskhod 2 mission that saw him become the first person to perform a spacewalk. Credit: Getty Images / SVF2 / Contributor

Alexei Leonov, the first person to spacewalk, dies aged 85

A network of in a Martian rock slab known as 'Old Soaker' may indicate the drying-out of a mud layer over 3 billion years ago. This view comprises 3 images taken by the MAHLI camera on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Ancient oasis discovered on Mars points to Red Planet’s wet past

A view of the northern hemisphere of Saturn in 2016, as it nears its summer solstice in May 2017. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

20 new moons discovered around Saturn

Gamma ray observation of the Moon by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration

Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope images the Moon...but not as we know it

Planetary nebula NGC 2022. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade

Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky Hubble Space Telescope images the death of a Sun-like star

Plan view Terra Cimmeria. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky Mars Express orbiter reveals Red Planet's volcanic history

Inside the planetarium dome at Bristol's We The Curious. Credit: Lee Pullen

Planetarium Nights: new show at Bristol’s We the Curious 3D planetarium

Spitzer Spots a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky Spitzer views an edge-on galaxy in infrared

An illustration showing the Cassini spacecraft diving through plumes on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Organic compounds found in plumes ejected by Saturn’s moon Enceladus

An image of the Andromeda Galaxy by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

Andromeda Galaxy’s last meal

Into the Shadow László Francsics, Budapest, Hungary, 21 January 2019. Category: Our Moon (overall winner). Equipment: Sony Alpha 99 camera, 250mm Newtonian, Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro mount.

Astrophotography

IIAPY 2019 winners revealed

An artist’s impression showing exoplanet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

Water detected on potentially ‘habitable’ exoplanet