History of astronomy

Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Credit: Maverick Photo Agency

Interview Catherine Heymans, Scotland's Astronomer Royal

Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Iwrin and David Scott deploy the first Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Radio Astronomy Podcast 50 years since Apollo 15

Artist's illustration of NASA's WMAP mission mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background. Credit: NASA / WMAP Science Team

Astronomy History How WMAP mapped the early Universe

Illustration showing Galileo gazing up at the night sky through his telescope. Credit: Hulton Archive / Stringer / Getty Images

How Galileo changed the way we look at the Universe

The Dunhuang Star Chart. Credit: British Library

Astronomy History A guide to China's astronomy

US president John F Kennedy addresses Congress on 25 May 1961, announcing his administration's intention to put human beings on the Moon. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Astronomy History How JFK kickstarted the race to the Moon

NASA WMAP mission podcast

Radio Astronomy Podcast 20 years of NASA's WMAP mission

Michael Collins' official Apollo 11 portrait. Credit: NASA

Former Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90

Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / iStock / Getty Images / Bettmann Allegheny Observatory Records, University of Pittsburgh

Astronomy History The Great Debate

Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / iStock / Getty Images / Bettmann Allegheny Observatory Records, University of Pittsburgh

Podcast: How the Great Debate changed astronomy forever

Stephen Walker Yuri Gagarin lecture BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Webinar Yuri Gagarin - the untold story

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Astronomy explained What is a galaxy?

Artist's illustration of the Mariner 9 spacecraft, which studied Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mariner 9: the spacecraft that revealed the secrets of Mars

Yuri Gagarin inside the Vostok 1 space capsule just before the flight that would make him the first human in space. Photo: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Radio Astronomy Podcast 60 years since Yuri Gagarin's historic flight

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, pictured in the capsule of his Vostok 1 spacecraft, 12 April 1961. Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Spaceflight history Yuri Gagarin: the first human in space