Astronomy news

Getting together in Node 1 to watch the launch of the SpaceX resupply rocket on a laptop streaming live from the ground. (ESA astronaut) Samantha Cristoforetti (pictured here left of Kelly) will grab the capsule a few days later from the U.S. cupola module.

SpaceConnectsUs Astronomers and astronauts discuss life in isolation

NASA has released the latest ’selfie’ captured by its Curiosity rover, which is currently exploring Mars searching for clues that could reveal the Red Planet’s geological history. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Eye On The Sky NASA's Mars Curiosity rover captures a new selfie

Spiral galaxy NGC 5468. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. / Acknowledgements: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

Eye On The Sky A face-on spiral galaxy hosting exploding stars

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The Bluedot Festival takes place every year at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. Credit: Anthony Harvey

Science lineup announced for Bluedot Festival 2020

The Pleasance, Edinburgh will be hosting many of this year's Edinburgh Science Festival's space-theme talks.

Coronavirus Edinburgh Science Festival 2020 goes digital

Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth. Credit: ASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

New Horizons flyby reveals critical clues about planetary formation

Black holes were first suggested as a phenomenon in 1783 by English natural philosopher John Michell, and their behaviour was mathematically described in 1916 by the German physicist Karl Schwarzschild.

Royal Mail releases cosmic stamps to mark 200 years of Royal Astronomical Society

A view of the centre of the Milky Way by the Very Large Telescope. Credit ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.

Study puts the Milky Way’s disc at 10 billion years old

An artist's rendering of hot Jupiter exoplanet KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Hottest exoplanet discovered causes molecular hydrogen meltdown

CO2 in Enceladus’s ocean may be controlled by chemical reactions at the seafloor, according to new research. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Saturn’s moon Enceladus: interior could be more complex than initially thought