Shoot for the moon

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

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

‘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

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

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,

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