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An artist's impression of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-186f. Credit: NASA

Earth-like exoplanets may be more common than thought

Galaxy NGC 5861, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies an intermediate spiral galaxy

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo by Julian Leek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches in historic first crewed flight

The glare of light pollution can be a menace for amateur astronomers. Credit: Steve Marsh

61% live under ‘severe light pollution’, says UK survey

Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 4100. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho

Eye On The Sky Hubble views a stretched spiral galaxy

Earth, as seen by the Bepi Colombo spacecraft. Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Eye On The Sky Bepi Colombo spacecraft's final glimpse of Earth

Hubble captures the break-up of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). Credit NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland)

Eye On The Sky Hubble captures the break-up of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

A mosaic of asteroid Bennu, as seen by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.

Eye On The Sky OSIRIS-REx captures epic mosaic of asteroid Bennu

Super star cluster LHA 120-N150. Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA/I. Stephens

Eye On The Sky Hubble spots a super star cluster on the edge of the Tarantula Nebula

It’s hoped that the launch of NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance will go ahead in July 2020. Credit: NASA

How coronavirus is affecting the spaceflight sector

NGC 2014 and NGC 2020, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI

Eye On The Sky Hubble astronomers release new image on telescope's 30th anniversary

Cosmic bubbles seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope NASA/JPL-Caltech/Milky Way Project

Eye On The Sky Spitzer spots cosmic bubbles generated by massive young stars

Astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka on the International Space Station Credit: NASA

Astronauts return home to planet Earth in lockdown

Kraftwerk performing at the Bluedot Festival 2019. Credit: Lucas Sinclair

Bluedot 2020 festival postponed until 2021

A Lyrid meteor and the Milky Way, Anza-Borrego Desert, California. Credit: Kevin Key / Slworking / Getty

Lyrids 2020 How to see this year's meteor shower