Saving the stars

Light pollution is as big a threat to our planet as sewage or plastic, says dark sky officer Dani Robertson

A crack-of-dawn start is one way to avoid the crowds. But there’s another option that doesn’t need an alarm clock.

We all want pristine streets, says Terry Tavner, so why are we so rubbish at keeping our country clean?

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

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

With so many genuine reasons to feel hopeless about climate change, there is evidence that nature has the power to bounce back…