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Astronomy

February 2026

  • Illustration of named stars in the night sky

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Orion the hunter dominates the February night sky

  • PhD student Linda Losurdo looks at a tube inside a chamber in a physics lab

    Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch

January 2026

  • Digital artwork of a light blue and beige planet among stars

    A potentially habitable new planet has been discovered 146 light-years away – but it may be -70C

  • Constellation map

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Moon occultation will ‘wink out’ Pleiades star cluster

  • Starwatch 19 January

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Watch the crescent moon pass Saturn as dusk gathers

  • Dark round image surrounded by orange light

    Revolutionary imaging of black hole aims to prove they are not ‘evil vacuum cleaners’

  • Nasa readies its most powerful rocket for round-the-moon flight

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Behold Taurus, the Babylonian bull of heaven

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Here comes giant Jupiter, impossible to miss

  • Wolf supermoon across the world – in pictures

    Gallery18

December 2025

  • Graphic image of the night sky

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: tracking down Aries, the faint ram of winter skies

  • Starry skies above a forest and observatory

    Stargazing in the Lake District: a new forest observatory opens in Grizedale

  • Star chart

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: After the Geminids meteor shower, it is the turn of the Ursids

  • Illustration of an astronaut with a picket fence

    The big idea
    There’s a new space race – will the billionaires win?

  • Science Weekly
    Life beyond Earth? Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock on the mysteries of space – podcast

    Podcast15:05

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: shortest day in reach as astronomical winter begins

  • Geminid meteor shower: where to watch Australia’s biggest shooting star show this weekend

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Brave the cold and the enjoy the Geminids meteor shower

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Mercury offers rare viewing chance for early risers

November 2025

  • The Milky Way

    Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

    Astrophysicist Prof Tomonori Totani says research could be crucial breakthrough in search for elusive substance
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