Browsing: Astronomy

Judges have announced the winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual competition. The photographs will be exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in London from…

An almost full moon glides close to Saturn this week, forming a pleasant conjunction in an otherwise unremarkable patch of the sky.The chart shows the view…

There is an exquisite gathering of celestial objects to look out for this week when a beautifully slender crescent moon forms a triangle with the planets…

A planetary scientist whose research revealed the possibility of extraterrestrial life on one of Saturn’s moons has been made the first female astronomer royal.Prof Michele Dougherty,…

Stargazers and night owls in Australia will be in prime position to catch a glimpse of two spectacular meteor showers this week as they pass through…

Sir Francis Graham-Smith, who has died aged 102, was the last of the generation that created modern radio astronomy, the branch of astronomy that studies the…

This week, Venus will pass through the so-called Golden Gate of the Ecliptic. Although the name has risen to prominence with science popularisers in recent decades,…

Spectacular views of distant galaxies, giant dust clouds and hurtling asteroids have been revealed in the first images captured by a groundbreaking telescope that is embarking…

Following last week’s conjunction between Regulus and Mars, the moon now gets in on the act. This meeting of a star, a planet and a moon…