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.

Night as a space of fear and imagination

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