BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Universe could end sooner than we think
New model suggests Hawking radiation is speeding cosmic decay
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Memories of Hale-Bopp
Three decades on, Stuart Atkinson vividly recalls the wonder of witnessing the last Great Comet
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Starpoint Australis Octans portable observatory
A pitch-perfect solution if you love travelling to dark-sky sites for astronomy
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Early 'Hot DOG' is crammed full of gas
Infrared reveals young galaxy has far more mass than expected
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
In June, The Sky at Night celebrated 350 years of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. George Dransfield talks time and how the clock rules her own astronomy
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Pluto: 10 years on
The New Horizons fly-by of this ancient, icy world continues to surprise a decade later. So what have we learned? Ben Evans investigates
8 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Battle of the Big Bang
About 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe burst forth from an infinitely dense inferno, started to expand and cool, and is still expanding to this day. The Big Bang is “science's earliest memory”, as authors Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper point out in this new book, so it's natural to ask what happened before it. But you may have been told that this is a daft question, because if time began at the Big Bang, then there can be no ‘before’. Battle of the Big Bang is here to debunk this myth and guide the reader between public perception and what cosmologists believe today.
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
O&A WITH A FILAMENT FINDER
Researchers looking at the centre of our Galaxy have discovered a first: long, slim filaments made not of dust but gas, and forged by powerful shockwaves
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
One of largest space structures to date discovered
The giant ball of hydrogen, named Eos, has been found on Earth's doorstep
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Diffraction spikes
Stars don't actually have spikes, but that's how we see them thanks to bending light
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
JWST finds frozen water in a young star system
Long-awaited discovery finds crystalline water-ice in star's debris disc
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Mystery of Jupiter's luminous aurorae solved
High-energy particles trigger ultra-bright dancing lights in Jupiter's atmosphere
1 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Signs point to Planet 9
We may have found the first direct evidence of a ninth major planet in the Solar System
2 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Make a stunning skyscape
Combine the night sky and landscape to brilliant effect
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
the Tracking stars
Ancient skywatchers of the Four Corners
7 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Who really invented the telescope?
No, it wasn't Galileo. Govert Schilling untangles the tale of astronomy's greatest creation, and recounts what happened next
7 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76Ha telescope
Holding out for a first-rate solar scope at an affordable price? The wait may be over
3 min |
July 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
How to photograph NLCs for science
Noctilucent clouds are fleeting and mysterious - if you catch them, your data can be useful
3 min |
July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Could you dig all the way through the planet?
Learn the science behind digging a giant hole.
3 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Controlling the weather
Is technology being used to change the weather, or is it science fiction?
3 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Fabien Cousteau
Meet the ocean explorer who plans to build a futuristic base under the sea.
3 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
NEXT STOP: THE FUTURE
All aboard as JD Savage takes the fast track through 200 years of train travel.
5 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Gladiators fought big cats for entertainment
Scientists have found the first physical evidence in Europe that Roman gladiators fought lions.
1 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Al decodes animal chat
Computers are giving us the power to understand creature communication.
2 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
HEADSCRATCHERS
Hi, I'm Pete, and I love science and the natural world. I work with the Royal Institution (Ri) in London, where you can find exciting, hands-on science events for young people.
3 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
The race is on between robots and humans
Twenty-one robots competed against human runners in the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing, China in April.
1 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Life on another planet?
Scientists have found molecules (groups of atoms) that could point to life on another planet.
1 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Sloth toothache cured by dentists
Dental experts have cured a two-toed sloth's toothache through a procedure called an apicectomy (say ap-ee-sek-toe-mee).
1 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Growing baby corals
Meet the UK scientists giving breeding corals a helping hand.
1 min |
June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
First UK baby born from transplanted womb
For the first time in the UK, a baby has been born from a transplanted uterus. When part of a person's body is not working properly, it can sometimes be replaced with the same part from another person.
1 min |