"We knew that this would be a historic comet"

Astronomer David Levy was immortalised for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – its impact with Jupiter 29 years ago held the world in awe

CELESTRON STARSENSE EXPLORER DX 102AZ

Innovative technology provides the simplest and quickest solution yet to finding objects to observe, and this instrument will be very popular with beginners

MOON TOUR - COPERNICUS

Get up close to the ‘Monarch of the Moon’

A HUNGRY BLACK HOLE 'SWITCHES ON' AS ASTRONOMERS WATCH IN SURPRISE

J221951 is one of the most extreme examples yet

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE - WHY DOES JUPITER CHANGE COLOUR?

For years, scientists have tried to work out why Jupiter’s bands frequently move and change colour. Now they believe they’ve found the answer

MARS HELICOPTER PHONES HOME AFTER A 63-DAY SILENCE

Rugged terrain had kept Ingenuity from communicating with its robotic partner, the Perseverance rover

SIX OF THE BEST SPACE PRANKS

It turns out that the sky isn’t the limit when it comes to a good old-fashioned practical joke

CLIMATES CHANGE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Alongside Earth, our planetary neighbourhood is changing. But not for the better…

TIME APPEARED TO MOVE FIVE TIMES SLOWER IN THE FIRST BILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG

Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of ‘clocks’ in the early universe

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID?

Asteroids could provide us with rare resources

NEPTUNE

The isolated azure ice giant remains a relative mystery

COSMIC 'SANDWICH' THEORY COULD EXPLAIN HOW SMALLER PLANETS ARE FORMED

Sandwiched planet formation may arise as the result of gas and dust being squeezed between large planets

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANGE ASTRONOMY?

With computers growing smarter than ever, training them how to spot and categorise astronomical objects could lead to a plethora of breakthroughs

OBJECT HOTTER THAN THE SUN FOUND ORBITING A DISTANT STAR AT BREAKNECK SPEED

A weird celestial object that’s blurring the line between planet and star has been uncovered

Neil deGrasse Tyson - "It would be cool if we were some simulation"

The host of StarTalk has become one of the world's best known astrophysicists, popularising space and science for millions

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MILKY WAY

The Milky Way is our home galaxy – a vast star factory with a monstrous black hole at its heart. Join our tour of the cosmic pinwheel that’s home to every star we can see in the night sky

WHAT'S THE STRANGEST THING SENT INTO SPACE?

From LEGO to pizza, this list of space oddities proves that almost anything can make its way into the cosmos

12 AMAZING JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE BREAKTHROUGHS

Webb is peering across the universe to discover new things about planets, galaxies and other cosmic objects

THE FORGOTTEN FORCE

A seemingly weak magnetic entity could have made all the difference in our universe’s evolution

CAN SPACE EXPLORATION REALLY BE ETHICAL?

More than 60 years after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere, human exploration and exploitation of space isn’t just a matter of technological innovation… it continues to raise many ethical issues

MANNED MISSION TO AN ASTEROID

NASA plans to send manned expeditions to near-Earth asteroids in order to discover more about their formation and structure

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS A GARGANTUAN GEYSER ON SATURN'S MOON

Scientists are longing to go back to the moon to sample the plume material for signs of life

BEYOND PLUTO

From Planet X to objects frozen in time – what truly lurks outside the Solar System’s chaotic frontier

Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for the first time

A space solar power prototype has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly beam power through space and direct a detectable amount of energy towards Earth for the first time.

A new Pentagon-funded hypersonic test vehicle could fly in summer 2024

A new experimental hypersonic cruise vehicle could be flying as soon as next summer under an initiative from the US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).

Earth is getting hotter at a faster rate despite pledges of government action

Average global temperatures are rising at an ever-faster rate despite pledges by world leaders to tackle climate change.

New Tatooine-like exoplanet discovered orbiting twin suns

For decades, astronomers wondered if planets with twin Suns like Luke Skywalker’s fictional home world of Tatooine were only science fiction.

OLYMPUS 8X25 WP II

For casual skywatchers, the portable Olympus 8x25 WP II boasts an excellent optical system for views of the Moon and bright targets with superb contrast

MOON TOUR - LANGRENUS CRATER

This month, we help you find one of the Moon’s best hidden gems

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE - WHERE DID EARTH GET ITS WATER FROM?

Two new scientific studies have sailed researchers ever closer to discovering the source of Earth's water