One step forward for Artemis...

The Moon mission’s latest triumph has been followed by a potential new setback

The brightest radiation flash on record

Gamma-ray burst declared a 1-in-10,000-year event

Unistellar eVscope eQuinox 2

Powerful, light pollution-busting smart scope for painless one-click imaging

Who invented the southern constellations?

Ian Ridpath uncovers how it took 150 years of exploration to fill the skies of the Southern Hemisphere with 26 new constellations.

Noctilucent clouds on the rise

Night-shining clouds have fascinated skywatchers for almost 140 years. Rob Banino finds out what they tell us about our changing atmosphere

What happened BEFORE the Big Bang?

Govert Schilling answers your questions on cosmology’s most confusing concepts

The FIRST WOMEN of space

Ezzy Pearson reveals how Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride blazed the trail for womankind

Our DISAPPEARING dark skies

Shaoni Bhattacharya looks at what is - and isn't - being done to help ensure everyone can see the stars

The trip of my dreams

Scout Simon Shemetilo won a VIP visit to a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

In April's Sky at Night, chemist Mark Sephton revealed how we'll look for signs of Martian life in samples collected by Perseverance

Blowing bubbles in the early Universe

Do infant galaxies work together to clear the hydrogen around them?

DART was bang on target

The asteroid-deflecting DART mission worked with incredible accuracy

DEEP-SKY TOUR

Everybody knows the Plough, but can you find all six Messier objects in the surrounding field?

How we know that Earth isn't flat

Astronomers have known that Earth is a globe for thousands of years

The story of SKYLAB

Fifty years on from its launch, Jane Green takes a look back at the troubles and triumphs of the USA's trailblazing space station

Darkness on the moors

In search of true darkness and skies that sparkle, Jamie Carter visits Yorkshire, home of the UK's newest International Dark Sky Reserves

How can we see the afterglow of th Big Bang?

Govert Schilling of cosmology's continues to explain some most confusing concepts

The riddle of the HYPERGIANTS

New research is uncovering the weird workings of the largest stars in the Universe

The riddle of the HYPERGIANTS

New research is uncovering the weird workings of the largest stars in the Universe

Capturing Milky Way THE MAGNIFICENT

Get ready for the return of late summer nights under the stars as Will Gater presents a beginners’ guide to photographing our ever-changing home Galaxy

Imaging with MULTI-BAND FILTERS

Over the last few years there has been an explosion of multi-band filters for astrophotographers.

FIELD OF VIEW

The very, very early Space Race

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

In just a generation, humanity has gone from knowing of a handful of planets - those in our Solar System - to confirming the existence of over 5,000.

Q&A WITH A BLACK HOLE PHYSICIST

The Event Horizon Telescope continues to test Einstein's general relativity predictions under the most extreme conditions

Speed up your workflow

Save time by automating common processing steps like boosting contrast and reducing noise

Experiments with Venus

Try out these activities while the Evening Star is shining bright in our skies

Build a Bahtinov mask

Make an astrophotography focusing aid to fit any telescope

Master the art of averted vision

If you're new to stargazing, a faint object like C/2022 E3 ZTF, the comet that had us all excited earlier this year, isn't the best target for a first look through a telescope - the chances are you won't see a thing.

The new Space Age

With 70 nations, space-mad billionaires and eager private companies all vying for a stake - but no laws or rules -space today is verging on a free-for-all.

Does the Universe have an edge?

It's one of the most perplexing questions in cosmology: does our Universe have an edge?