Inside the sky at night

There are some Really Big Things coming up in the world of exoplanets in 2026. Sadly, they’re not until the tail end of the year – tough for someone like me who struggles with patience. (True story: a

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

1 Thursday The Moon’s libration makes it favourable for viewing features near the southern pole today. At 21:06 UT, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, can be seen emerging from behind Saturn’s disc. Callis

IT was December 16 in Houston and it was a chilly evening, for Texas. I had a new girlfriend called Molly and I was pretty certain she was the one. We’d been seeing each other for several months, and

Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is sure there is alien life out there – and she wants a chance to explore it

One in three adults in the UK struggles to sleep through the night; among them is writer Nick Pope. Could embracing the multibillion-pound sleep economy fix his night-time woes or would obsessively attempting to crack bedtime cause another problem altogether?