The moon through your telescope

Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions

Flammarion is an inconspicuous walled plain near the centre of the Moon’s disc. On the Earth-facing side of the lunar surface, there are two great crater ‘chains’ containing three large craters. On th

‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

In a remote mountain range in Chile, a newly unveiled observatory will soon begin mapping the sky. When its survey starts, the Vera C Rubin Observatory will spend every night for the next decade chart

The lunar beads are volcanic in origin When ...

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the fine dust debris strewn around the orbit of a comet. This happens when Earth is in a similar position in its orbit every year, and meteor showers rep