These porro-prism binoculars are waiting to unveil some glorious sights – whether it’s spotting stars or nature watching
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Courtesy of Hama UK Ltd, this stellar duo is waiting to be won to reveal a host of amazing astronomical sights
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Courtesy of Celestron, we’re offering you the chance to add these binoculars to your astronomical arsenal
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EXPIRED: Win a Meade ETX-125 Observer worth £795!
An astronomer needs the right tools, and this telescope is the perfect partner
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: The Mercury 13 crew
In a time of gender prejudice, these women were denied the chance to fly into space, despite their obvious and remarkable capabilities
Space Exploration
Watch LIVE: The first all-female spacewalk
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will soon make history with the first all-female spacewalk, approximately commencing at 11:50 GMT (6:50 ET) on 18 October 2019
Solar System
NASA spots InSight Mars lander and Curiosity rover from space (photos)
The new photo is the best-ever look at the InSight lander on the surface of Mars
Space Exploration
Why aren’t the stars visible in pictures of astronauts on spacewalks?
We answer the question of why the stars are hidden in pictures taken from space
Space Exploration
NASA’s first SLS megarocket launch to the Moon could be delayed to 2021
The Space Launch System megarocket will eventually take humans back to the Moon in 2024
Space Exploration
Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat
Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues
Solar System
Interstellar Comet Borisov looks pretty normal, new observations suggest
These results are based of observations made in September 2019 using telescopes in Spain and Hawaii
FutureTech
Future Tech: Obliterating space junk with a laser cannon
The Russian space agency has previously announced plans to turn a three-metre optical telescope into a debris destroyer
Solar System
What did the Sun look like when it was born?
The Sun is 4.6 billion years old, but what did it look like in its early years?
Space Exploration
Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December
Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019
Deep Space
A churning ‘molten blob’ of planet may be easier to find. Here’s why
Molten planets could hold clues as to how a planet eventually becomes habitable, much like Earth
Space Exploration
SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
Space Exploration
NASA wants to encourage private space stations
commercial companies could build their own space stations and utilise the unique environment of low-Earth orbit
Astronomy
Do the Southern Hemisphere constellations move into the Northern Hemisphere?
The shift between the two hemispheres caused by a wobble on the Earth