Astronomy News
Water has been spotted across the surface of asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS REX spacecraft. The probe will spend several years investigating the space rock, eventually returning a sample to Earth in 2023.
NASA's Voyager 2 probe has passed through the heliopause, making it the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
On Christmas Eve 1968, the first mission to the Moon changed how we view our home planet forever.
Elizabeth Pearson tells the story of the first manned lunar return.
The Kepler space telescope may have run out fuel, but for NASA scientists there is alot of important work yet to be done.
We spoke to Kepler scientist Geert Barentsen to find out what the mission has achieved, and what lies ahead.
Dark matter remains one of the unsolved mysteries in astronomy. In an excerpt from The Beginning and the End of Everything, a new book by Dr Paul Parsons, the author explores how the concept was first conceived.
Looking for a Christmas present for the astronomer or space fan in your life, or in need of a good read to take you away from the festive hubbub?
We present our favourite 12 books from the past year of reviews in BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
The only recorded case of a person being injured by a meteor happened on this day 64 years ago. What followed was a bizarre legal case about who owned the space rock.
Enter our competition to win one of three copies of Hasselblad & the Moon Landing, a new book that looks at the history of the Apollo 11 mission through the lens of the famous Hasselblad cameras.
PLEASE NOTE THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
NASA's latest Mars mission will attempt to discover the secrets that lie beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
Elizabeth Pearson reveals how InSight will operate, and what NASA scientists hope to learn.
In the latest episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast, the BBC Sky at Night Magazine team look back on their favourite space stories of the year, and find out how to capture images of Mars that can be used for science.
The Kepler space telescope has now retired, and it's safe to say it has changed our view of the Universe forever.
But, as this archive 2009 interview with then Kepler principal investigator Bill Borucki reveals, the project was initially difficult to get off the ground.
The residents of Beddgelert in North Wales were surprised when, one day in 1949, a meteorite crashed through the roof of a local hotel. The event has gone down in local history.
Katrin Raynor Evans, librarian at Cardiff Astronomical Society, reveals the story of the Beddgelert meteorite.
Jack Clemons is a spaceflight engineer who worked throughout the Apollo and Shuttle missions helping astronauts return safely to Earth.
We spoke to Jack about the excitment of the Apollo era, the workings of NASA Mission Control and where spaceflight might take humanity next.
We speak to former NASA scientist of the Apollo era David Baker about the space race and putting humans on the Moon.
After nine years in deep space, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel.
Paul F Cockburn asks what it’s shown us.
What are black holes? What role do they play in the formation of galaxies, and could a civilisation ever harness their energy? We spoke to Professor Chris Impey, author of Einstein's Monsters, to get answers to some of the biggest questions in the Universe.
PLEASE NOTE THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED
Enter our competition to win one of three copies of Seeing Stars: A Complete Guide to the 88 Constellations, written by Sara Gillingham and published by Phaidon.
Entrants must be UK residents aged 18 or over.
After a decade of scientific discovery in the asteroid belt, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has run out of fuel.
Jasmin Fox-Skelly looks back on its biggest discoveries.
Enter our competition to win one of two signed copies of Mission Moon 3-D, a new book about the Space Race conceived by Brian May and published by the London Stereoscopic Company.
Entrants must be UK residents aged 18 or over.
PLEASE NOTE THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED
The Large Hadron Collider experiments recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang. Scientists have found that the plasma created during that time acted like a fluid.