Back at the beginning of 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft studied and passed a peculiar object in the Kuiper Belt, known as Arrokoth.

Discovering signs of extraterrestrial life in the universe has been a highly sought-after field of inquiry throughout much of scientific history.

China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)—which is the single largest and most powerful radio telescope in the world—is now 100% operational.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an infrared telescope studying our solar system, is finally coming to the end of its life. At the end of January 2020, in anticipation of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope launch in 2

This week our technical team visited IC Astronomy in Spain to upgrade our 70-cm telescope and install a second Takahashi FSQ-106.

At the UCL Observatory at Mill Hill (London) we have a number of telescopes (20 to 80cm) that we use for teaching purposes and with which we conduct research in a numbe

As you may have heard, Betelgeuse, a large red supergiant in the Orion constellation, has recently been dimming, first noticed by astronomers in October 2019.

Though they’re not often talked about as frequently, small bodies, such as asteroids and comets, are just as essential to our understanding of the universe as large planets and stars.

On November 11th, 2019, the NASA Parker Solar Probe (PSP) successfully completed its third rotation around the Sun, in an ongoing effort to collect detailed data about the heliosphere region.

On January 6th, 2020, researchers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) announced they discovered a new exoplanet in the planetary system TOI 700.

With a large variety of astronomical events happening this year, from supermoons to meteor showers to eclipses, 2020 is going to be an incredible time for astronomy enthusiasts around the world.

After more than four years we decided to shut down operations at Warrambungle Observatory in Australia, decommission our Meade LX200, and move home to a new observatory located nearby, nearby Yass – NSW, Australia, where