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Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn

SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

Our Solar System is home to hundreds of moons, but how many can you observe? Some – like our own and the brighter ones around Jupiter and Saturn – are relatively easy to see with the naked eye, binocu

BEST TIME TO SEE: 7 September 2025, from moonrise around 19:45 BST (18:45 UT) Remember the total lunar eclipse back in March? Unfortunately, for many observers across the UK, the weather wasn’t good,

How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades