Astronomy news

Autumn sees the return of Orion to the night sky. Credit: Bernhard Hubl / CCDGuide.com

Gravitational waves detected in same area of sky as Betelgeuse

BBC Sky at Night Magazine Back Garden Astronomy Week

Discover the Moon with Back Garden Astronomy Week

An idea crater in Mars's northern polar region, captured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on 21 August 2019. Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Mars is shedding water far quicker than thought

The top images from the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020 competition will be on display at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Credit: National Maritime Museum, London

IIAPY The world's biggest astro imaging competition opens for entries

An artist’s impression of the CHEOPS spacecraft observing a transiting exoplanet. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

ESA’s CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting mission set for launch

An artist's concept showing ARIEL in orbit. Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office

NASA’s CASE instrument added to ESA’s ARIEL exoplanet mission

Composite image of Mercury transiting across the sun on 9 May, 2016, as seen by HMI on NASA's Solar Dynamics Obersvatory. Credit: NASA/SDO

Transit of Mercury 2019 Livestream

Lights off at the Shard as Google promotes the astrophotography capabilities of its new Pixel 4 phoen. Credit: Matt Crossick/PA Wire

Lights off for London’s The Shard in Google astrophotography event

ULC Observatory's new Perren Telescope. Credit: UCL

University College London Observatory unveils new 80cm Perren telescope

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