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Black holes, dark matter, gravitational waves and exoplanets: find out how astronomy is unlocking the secrets of the Universe.

An artist’s impression shows how the Universe’s first, massive, blue stars are embedded in gaseous filaments. Credit: N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation

How did the first stars affect the evolution of the Universe?

An artist's impression of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter releasing probes into Venus's atmosphere. Credit: NASA/NSSDCA

Did the Pioneer mission discover phosphine in the clouds of Venus?

Cone-shaped shadows emanating from the bright centre of galaxy IC 5063 could be cast by the dusty ring surrounding the supermassive black hole at its centre. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and W.P. Maksym (CfA)

Eye On The Sky Shadow cast by dust disc around supermassive black hole

The world-famous Arecibo Observatory 305m radio telescope is to be decommissioned following safety concerns. Credit: University of Central Florida

News Arecibo Telescope under threat following structural damage

Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disc. Our Solar System may have looked like this in its infancy. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

What is stardust?

A stream of charged particles emanating from red giant star R Aquilae. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decin et al.

Eye On The Sky Stellar winds from red giant star produce cosmic floral pattern

What is a black hole? Janna Levin appears on the Radio Astronomy podcast

Radio Astronomy Podcast What's a black hole?

Jupiter, Mars and Saturn imaged at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the Atacama desert. Credit: ESO

Eye On The Sky Jupiter, Mars, Saturn imaged at La Silla Observatory

Katie Mack hosts BBC Sky at Night Magazine's webinar The Whole History of the Universe

Online Lecture Katie Mack: The Whole History of the Universe

A galactic collision looking rather like a Halloween pumpkin. Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)

Galactic Halloween pumpkin snapped by Hubble Space Telescope

Clavius is a wonderfully rugged moon crater, ripe for observing with a telescope. Credit: Pete Lawrence

NASA detects water on sunlit surface of the Moon

Do the high energy jets we see in the most active systems, suggest growing black holes? Credit: draco-zlat/getty images

BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

A view of the northern sky captured by the TESS satellite. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA)

Eye On The Sky TESS satellite produces mosaic image of northern night sky

What happens when a planet orbits two stars at once? Credit: Rastan/istock/getty images

What happens when exoplanets orbit two stars at once?

Coronal Mass Ejection as viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/SDO

Solar Cycle 25 has begun, say solar astronomers