Inside the sky at night

I had one answer, every time: Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Whenever Amaury Triaud, my PhD supervisor, asked for speaker suggestions for our weekly seminars, hers was the name I suggested. Again and again. He

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

I find it hard to believe it’s been 25 years since I appeared on The Sky at Night for the first time. A scared student in a new suit, I’d been invited by Patrick to discuss viewers’ questions, which r

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

For Sarah, it was a night that would go down in history – for more reasons than one

Imagine an early human out on the savannah, stepping away from the evening fire, glancing up at the dark sky and being totally captivated by the tiny, twinkling sparks dotted everywhere. Eyes wide, he