Iain Todd
Science journalist
Iain Todd is BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Content Editor. He fell in love with the night sky when he caught his first glimpse of Orion, aged 10.
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New York, Philadelphia, Boston... Saturn. Astronaut captures lights of northeastern USA from Space Station
Image from space shows lights of NYC, Washington, Philadelphia and Boston, curvature of Earth and the planet Saturn.
Gallery | Leo Triplet
The three galaxies that make up the Leo Triplet, M66, M65 and NGC 3628, are engaged in a gravitational tug of war, making this a fascinating deep-sky spectacle.
Webb detects farthest black hole collision ever seen, looking back to a period shortly after the Big Bang
Webb Telescope's image of galaxy system ZS7 reveals the farthest black hole collision ever seen, just 780 million years after the Big Bang.
Sirius, brightest star in the sky, flashes green and twinkles as it sets in smartphone video
Juno images of Jupiter's icy moon Europa suggest a subsurface ocean, wandering icy shell and rupturing plumes
New images of icy moon Europa reveal some intriguing features.
Mysterious 'butterfly' in space is largest planet-forming disk ever seen, around a star four times as massive as the Sun
IRAS 23077 is likely the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, and is located about 1,000 lightyears from Earth.
How small can a star be? The smallest known star ever discovered is only slightly bigger than Saturn
The smallest star ever discovered has been found by astronomers in a search that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
A week of rapid solar flares. NASA spacecraft captured bursts on the Sun in the run-up to the aurora display (video)
Beautiful x-ray image shows vent channelling material away from the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy
Staggeringly beautiful image reveals the chaos at the centre of our Galaxy.
Interview, Virtual Planetarium, telescope software and image galleries. Our June 2024 Bonus Content
Download this month's Bonus Content.
From a cosmic sombrero to colliding galaxies, 6 of the best deep-sky objects to see in the Crow and the Cup
How many deep-sky objects can you find in Corvus and Crater?
As solar activity ramps up, NASA releases video of two strong solar flares erupting from the surface of the Sun
Webb discovers evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky super-Earth planet orbiting a Sun-like star
The T Coronae Borealis 'new star' nova - visible soon - may have been seen by a 13th century German abbott
Halley's Comet meteor shower peaks this weekend. Top tips for beginners observing the Eta Aquariids
Our top tips for beginners heading out to see an Eta Aquariid meteor this weekend.
What the Flower Moon is and why you'll be able to see it at the end of May
Catch the full Moon at the end of May and you will have seen a 'Flower Moon'.
Astrophotographer captures Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Jupiter and Uranus during the April eclipse
The comet and two planets captured while shooting the April 8 eclipse.
Spaceflight history | Who were the Mercury 7?
A guide to NASA's Mercury Project and the Mercury 7 astronauts who became the first Americans to fly into space and orbit Earth.
Do you have a video doorbell? This tech company wants your videos of this weekend's meteor shower
Do you have a video doorbell? Your live camera may have captured footage of a meteor shower.
How will solar storms affect future Mars astronauts? That's what two NASA spacecraft are hoping to find out
Solar maximum provides an opportunity to study the effects of an active Sun on the surface of Mars.
How an 18th century comet-hunter's list of targets to avoid became the most famous astronomy catalogue
The complete Messier Catalogue, including magnitudes and coordinates to find each one in the night sky.
No-one can hear you scream! Our pick of the best horror movies set in space
Our pick of the best macabre movies set among the stars.
This hot Jupiter planet is hot enough to forge iron, and Webb has made a weather map of it from 280 lightyears away
Webb Telescope makes a weather map of WASP-43 b