The European Southern Observatory operates several observatory sites in the southern hemisphere, including the world famous Paranal Observatory, home to the Very Large Telescope (the VLT). This afternoon I stumbled across an amazing video of the VLT...

An illustration of LCROSS heading for lunar impact. Credit: NASA The NASA LCROSS spacecraft, and part of the upper stage of its rocket, are due to deliberately crash into a crater (known as Cabeus) close to the Moon’s south pole on Friday (12:31pm UK...

A few weeks ago the results of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition were announced, at the opening of the exhibition of the winning images. As the media partner for the competition a few of us from the Sky At Night Magazine team,...

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Here’s another one of those stunning planetary images that really stops you in your tracks. It’s just been released by the Cassini mission imaging team and shows Saturn (and a few of its moons) as seen by the...