Astronomy news

Astronomers celebrating a successful Skellig Star Party 2019. Credit: Roy Stewart

Skellig Star Party 2019

An artist's depiction of the ExoMars rover traversing the surface of Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

Science instruments installed on UK-built Mars rover Rosalind Franklin

An artist's impression of Europa Clipper in orbit around Jupiter's frozen moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Europa Clipper to search for signs of life at Jupiter’s icy moon

The Royal Photographic Society's Bristol space is hosting talks and workshops exploring humanity's relationship with the night sky. Credit: Rebecca Faith Photo

Art meets astronomy at the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol

S81-39499_large (1)

Chris Kraft, NASA pioneer, dies aged 95

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

Bluedot festival to bounce messages off the Moon

A solar prominence captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA

Apollo Moon rocks could reveal the history of our Sun

Apollo photos: new exhibition

Artist’s impression showing NASA’s Dragonfly lander on Saturn’s moon Titan. Credit: NASA/JHU APL

NASA’s Dragonfly to explore Saturn’s moon Titan

An artist's impression of a pristine comet entering the Solar System with the comet interceptor waiting to initiate contact in Earth's orbit. Credit: ESA

The new UK mission to catch a comet

An enhanced colour image of Daphnis embedded in Saturn's rings, kicking up waves of material. The images in the mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 28,000km from the ring moon. Image scale is 170m per pixel. Credit: Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.

Never-before-seen detail revealed in Saturn’s rings

Lunar Wall Mosaic
Created by the Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, in the heart of the Space Race, The Lunar Wall Mosaic is a map compiled from thousands of lunar photographs. Detailed maps like this were crucial to the success of projects like Apollo 11.

The Mapping of the Moon

Artist impression Titan Saturn

Saturn’s moon offers glimpse of Earth’s past

Ocean-blue-website-low-res

Bluedot 2019 announces sustainability programme

Sky-at-night

Welcome to the new BBC Sky at Night Magazine website