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Yes, scientists have captured real images showing black holes and their ferocious power. Here are some of the most spectacular - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Have you ever seen a black hole? The truth is likely to be 'yes' and 'no'. That's because we can never truly 'see' a black hole, but instead can observe the effects of the mind-bending physics going…

Betelgeuse has a companion star – so why hasn't Hubble been able to see it? Astronomers may finally have worked out where it's been hiding - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Since the great dimming that took place in 2019, Betelgeuse Orions shoulder and one of the best-known stars in the sky has presented us with new mysteries. As astronomers turned telescopes to this e…

There's a strange cloud on Mars that can only be explained with 'exotic physics'. Scientists think they've finally solved the mystery - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

There's a strange cloud that emerges on Mars every year in the spring and summer of the planet's southern hemisphere. Known as the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, it stretches nearly twice the length of…

Space companies want to send humans to Mars. But how realistic is it? These are the fiercest dangers we face making a trip to the Red Planet - skyatnightmagazine.com

With NASA's Artemis programme returning humans to the lunar environment and private spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Blue Origins ramping up plans to send humans to Mars, the prospect of humans …

We may have found the first direct evidence of a ninth major planet in the Solar System - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Suggestions of a ninth planet in our Solar System have been rumbling on for years now. Some astronomers argue that the clustering and orbital tilt of a group of trans-Neptunian objects indicate grav…

Scientists have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our Solar System - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Get the key facts about this news story in our 1-minute read Radio emissions: Researchers have captured direct radio wave emissions originating from a planet outside our Solar System. MeerKAT array…

Earth hit by gamma rays from an exploding star 2 billion lightyears away - skyatnightmagazine.com

Earth was hit by a huge burst of gamma rays originating from a star nearly 2 billion lightyears away, according to the European Space Agency. The gamma ray burst caused a disturbance in Earth's iono…

Scientists have worked it out when Earth will run out of oxygen – and it's sooner than we thought - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

For obvious reasons, it's impossible to imagine life on Earth without oxygen. But will it ever run out? And if so, how long will our planet continue to have oxygen? There are a few scenarios in whic…

The James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant galaxy ever seen, at the dawn of the cosmos. Again. - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's superpowers is its ability to investigate the cosmic dawn, the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The telescope has once again lived up to it…

We thought the Universe was the same everywhere. But it turns out it could be much stranger than we'd imagined - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

We assume the Universe looks broadly the same no matter where you are or which way you look. When scientists say that the Universe is isotropic, it means that on the largest scales, the Universe loo…

Humans may become Martians. Scientist reveals how evolution will morph our bodies on Mars - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Becoming Martian is an inspiring deep dive into how humans might live, thrive and conceive future generations on Mars. But it also explores how those humans could grow to regard the Red Planet as th…

Just hours before impact – this week a hi-tech telescope spotted an asteroid, then watched it hit Earth - skyatnightmagazine.com

Planetary defence scientists caught an asteroid smashing into Earth off the coast of Australia this week and only had a 6-hour warning that it would impact. On Sunday, September 6, 2026, automated t…

The case for life on Mars just got stronger. A NASA rover has found extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Scientists have confirmed one of the most extensive detections yet of complex organic carbon on Mars, found in mudstones in an ancient driedup river channel in Jezero Crater. The findings, published…

Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it's much wider than they thought - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The Milky Wayss most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental models of our home Galaxy may need to be revised. Astronomers used…

Something weird's going on at Saturn. Hubble has spotted a 10-sided geometric formation in the planet's clouds - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The most intriguing part to me is that this seems to have just formed recently, says Amy Simon at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. "The question is, why did it suddenly form now when we havent see…

A strange, dark object is warping the Universe. Scientists still don’t know what it is - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Astronomers have found a small, dark object that's so impossible to see, it can only be detected by the way its gravity distorts space. It's the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the Universe, a…