INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

On last month's episode of The Sky at Night, Mary McIntyre explained how basic home CCTV cameras can play a big part in meteor science

Sneezes and wheezes of the Butterfly

New imagery shows the nebula puffing 'like a fire-breathing dragon'

Super-Earths wreak havoc

Simulations show the common planet type would cause chaos in our Solar System

Dark skies champion Bob Mizon passes away

Dark-sky campaigner Bob Mizon, who spent many years fighting to protect the night from light pollution, passed away on 19 April.

Double quasar shines brightly

The pair are close to merging into a single giant black hole

JUICE begins its journey

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) from the European Space Agency is on its way, following a successful launch at 12:14 UTC on 14 April from French Guiana.

Black hole jet origin seen for first time

New observations hint at causes of powerful jets

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.