Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see in the night sky.
Mariner to mars
A journey through space and time
A spin around the sun
The real star of bethlehem
Guides: 1. planets
Guides: 2. galaxies
Guides: 3. stars
Guides: 4. comets and asteroids
We love the sky at night
Arend-roland comet
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Telescopes
New comet
The sun
Britain's first planetarium
Episode 9
The winter sky
Radio astronomy
The plough
Penumbral eclipse
The moon
Jupiter
Dwarf and giant stars
Moon missions
Telescopes
The universe
Mars
The craters on the moon
Life and death of the sun
Life and death of the sun
Mercury and the moon
Twin stars
The shape of our galaxy
Minor planets
Life on venus
Lights in the sky
The ringed planet
Topical events
The front and the back of the moon
Pairs of suns
The star in the east
The great spiral
Uranus
Why stars twinkle
Visitor from space
Star clouds of sagittarius
Other moons
Celestial fireworks
Measuring the universe
Moonscape
Make-up of the stars
Astronomy in russia
Tektites
Episode 14
Storms in the sun
Life on mars
Life on the moon?
Venus
Radio astronomy and the amateur
Cosmic debris
Saturn live?
Astronomy in space
Has the earth three moons?
How many stars in the pleiades?
A telescope for christmas
Volcanoes or meteorites?
Life in the universe?
The farthest planet
Space needles
The space fog
Astronomy and the ancients
Signals from jupiter
Saturn
Keeping space clean
The demon star
Journey to venus
The moving earth
Space '63
Space stations for mars
Venus revealed
Exploding stars
Science fiction and science fact
Birth of the planets
The active moon
Superflare
Moon base
Measuring the universe
Jupiter disturbed
Star myths
The ghosts of the universe
Signals from jupiter
Rock or dust?
Space navigation
Ancient and modern
Moon gathering
Midsummer sense
Quasars
Red giant, yellow planet, blue sun
Explosion in space
How old is the earth?
Unwelcome atmosphere
Up in a balloon
Lava or dust?
Ancient lore
Naked eye astronomy
How long is a day?
Space weather
Communicating with other worlds
Mars in shot
Re-thinking the universe
Ninety-eight inches
The unsteady universe
The extra planet
The moons of jupiter
The barwell meteorite
Man on the moon?
Stars in their courses
Solar eclipse
Royal observators
Activity on the moon
Sun time
The outer galaxies
The planet with the rings
Fireworks from space
The end of the world
The giant planet
Observing earth satellites
Gas-clouds in space
The craters on the moon
Ten years of astronomy
A new look at mars
Vega
Lord rosse's great telescope
Exploding stars
Invisible astronomy
Cameras round the moon
Venus observed
Lumps from outer space
Home-built observatories
Calendars of other worlds
The new planetarium
Black clouds in the galaxy
Flights of space fancy
A close pass by icarus
The unquiet sun
Pulsars
The structure of the moon
The siberian eclipse of the sun
The eclipse of the sun
The 'clocks' of space
Venus, the hot planet
The moon and the earth
The moon - a new era
How much can you see?
Jupiter, the giant planet
The moon and the earth
Mars target two
When venus crosses the sun
The needles of space
The weather of mars
Relativity
Stars that come and go
The moons of saturn
The grand tour
A 'sky at night' special 1969 - year of space
Wanderers in space
Orion
The crab nebula
Photography on the moon
When mercury crosses the sun
Amateur astronomers
Steering by the stars
The moons of mars
Astronomers in the space age
Moon-quakes!
Rockets to the planet
Infra-red astronomy
Planets of other suns
The approach of mars
Things are seldom what they seem
Sirius, the dog-star
A black hole in space?
Jupiter - the other magnetic planet
Orbiting space-stations
Tracking the stars
How far are the stars?
Mars comes close
The life and death of a star
Kepler, genius and mystic
Mars
The royal observatory telescope
The great bear
X-ray stars
Mars - a dynamic world
What do you want to know?
Fifteenth anniversary
The tenth planet?
Midsummer and megaliths
Jupiter - the colossal planet
The andromeda galaxy
An exploded planet?
Mars
Collapsing stars
Tycho's star
1973 - an exciting year!
Practical work in the observatory
Sirius - the brightest star
The eclipse of the century
How big are the planets?
The colours of the stars
The african eclipse
Navigational astronomy
Venus - a cratered world
The moon illusion
The volcanoes of mars
When mercury crosses the sun
Pioneer to jupiter
Positional astronomy
Saturn - the ringed planet
The milky way
Life in the universe
The daylight star
The heart of the scorpion
Shooting stars
Choosing a telescope
Lord rosse's great telescope
The changing force of gravity
Eros - wanderer in space
The year of the planets
Orion, the hunter
The new northern hemisphere laboratory
Algol: the winking demon
Astronomy of the infra-red
The outer planets
The mysterious x-rays
The hot clouds of the sun
The new moon
The galilean satellites
The origin of the universe
New star in cygnus
The rocks on venus
The search for life in the universe
The changing face of mars
The pole star
Black holes in space
The rings of saturn
The sun and the earth
Neutron stars
Viking to mars
Viking on mars
How far can you see?
Viking - the end of the beginning
A new look from old greenwich
Quasars - the remotest objects in the universe?
The evening star
Sirius, the dog-star
Travel in space and time
The mapping of mercury
Celebrates its 20th anniversary
The solar cycle
Uranus - the second ringed planet?
The new infra-red telescope
The swan in the sky
The voyager missions
Stars of the far south
The amateur astronomer
Why do the planets shine?
Suns, space-ships, and bug-eyed monsters
Exploring the night sky with binoculars
The nearest galaxies
The new mars
Suns, space-ships and bug-eyed monsters
The asteroids
Birth of a star
Astronomers' view of the earth
Gamma ray astronomy
The edge of the solar system
Question and answer
Does anything ever happen on the moon?
Where did life begin?
Exploded star
The alignment of the planets
Venus explored
The man who mapped the nebulae
Is life on earth unique?
The space between the stars
Voyager to jupiter
Looking at the weather from space
X-rays from space
Voyager 2 reaches jupiter
The zodiac
Pioneer to saturn
Observing the sun
The message of starlight
Ufos - fact or fantasy?
Mapping the sky
Saturn: the disappearing rings
The man who discovered a planet
The multiple mirror telescope
Journey to the centre of the galaxy
Kitt peak observatory: the solar telescope
Quasars
The mapping of venus
Meteor crater
Autumn equinox
The scintars
Voyager i reaches saturn
The quadrantids
The 200-inch telescope at mount
The sword of orion
Mr herschel's planet
The spring sky
'in the beginning.... '
Neptune - the mysterious giant
Bombardment from space
The summer sky
The perseids
Voyager 2: a second opinion of saturn
A tribute to sir bernard lovell
The autumn sky
The star of bethlehem
The winter sky
The changing face of venus
The largest star?
When planets loop the loop
The unfolding universe
The depths of space
La palma: a new observatory
The hunt for the tenth planet
Siding spring
The mystery of the spiral arm
The cosmic serpent
The last man on the moon
The winter sky
A new frontier
Mauna kea - half-way to space
The quickest pulsar
Neutrino hunting
Speckles of light
Pioneering the heliosphere
Illuminating quasars
Unlocking the secrets of vega
The autumn sky
The mount wilson observatory
Discoveries in space
The black hole weigh-in
Episode 600
Episode 900
The winter sky
At the castle gate
Venus unveiled
The secret lives of the stars
New life for solar max
Cooking the elements
A night with the int
Missions to comets
The orange world of titan
Shells around the stars
Once upon a time
Reflection nebulae
Forgotten constellations
Worlds apart?
Colours of the stars
The year of the comet
The sky in infra-red
Moon rills
Little worlds
Summer sky
Infra-red at siding spring
Mizar
The computerised amateur
Red shift - or red herring?
The comet returns
How wrong we were
Our nearest star
Voyager to uranus
Halley's comet: the encounter
The spring sky
The story of satum
Halley - the end of the tale?
The summer sky
The death of a star
The innermost planet
The furthest depths of the universe
The autumn sky
Cosmic lawn sprinkler
The galilean moons
Photographing the sky
The study of variable stars
Stellar catastrophe
A celebration
Air on other worlds
High moon
The william herschel telescope
The roof of the world
The hunt for planet ten
The exploding star
Jodrell - the listening bank
A telescope for christmas?
Where are the stars?
The winter sky
The brilliant planets
Yerkes observatory
The awakening sun
Quasars, redshifts and controversy
Planets revisited
The summer sky
Cosmic fireworks
Watch this space
Mars in close-up
Observing the autumn sky
Radio stars
Close encounters
Mysteries of the winter sky
Icebergs and crouching giants
Cosmic lighthouse
Observing from la silla
Exploring the ultraviolet sky
Telescopes for the 90s
The curious little world of pluto
Eclipse of the moon
Observing from the atacama
Neptune - voyager's last planet
The making of an astronomer
The bull in the sky
Voyager's grand tour
Tales of the unexpected astronomers
Window on the universe
Austin's comet
Leo and cancer
Brown dwarves
Looking back in time
Our daylight star
Mission to titan
The unveiling of venus
Europe in space
Armagh's 'flare' for astronomy
Great wall and the great attractor
Rosa t - a space telescope
Mars - the red planet
The fastest clocks in the universe
Jupiter and family
Bombardment from space
Wanderers in space
Guarding their secrets
Saturn the ringed planet
Soviet space astronomy
The pole star
Galaxy in creation?
Hubble space telescope
Nothing but blue skies
The strangest planet
The keck reflector
Sky-watcher
Asteroids
Shooting the stars
Space for astronomy
The astronomer royal
Our outer giants
Comets a second view
The first telescope
The great spiral
Venus - a new view
Six into one will go
Glitch in the system
Episode 1
Radio watchers
How the universe began
Cambridge telescope
Town astronomy
Star death
A star and its costar
Planetary nebulae
Swarm around the solar system
Merlin - the radio wizard
Tubes of light
Aerial display
Galactic dustbins
Cosmic charioteer
What's in a name?
Return to the moon
Studies of the southern sky
Celestial hide and seek
The royal observatory edinburgh
Swan's nest
Target jupiter
Radio network australia
The autumn sky
Lenses in the universe
Planets around pulsars
A year in the life of hubble
The youthful universe?
Belt round the sun
Onward to mars
Spring in the sky
Star cradles
Edge on saturn
The flying observatory
Comet crash update
Is anyone out there?
The far planets
Fibres of light
Fireworks night
Mission to jupiter
The night sky in winter
What's the matter between the stars?
News from space
March comet
Exploding stars
The end of the universe
The lives of the galaxies
Hydrogen hunters
A tale of three planets
Cool stars matter
Hunt the planet
Star remains
Target - the red planet.
Galileo at jupiter
The centre of the galaxy
The quasar chasers
Zodiacal light
Eyes on the universe
The great comet of 97
Roving on mars
Planets on view
Hipparcos-star plotter
Saturn visitor
Instruments of change
Star qualities
Diamonds in the sky
Ring of moons
The art of deep space
The total experience
A cold view of space
The sky with chips
Planets of other suns
The sun awakens
The uk schmidt - the first quarter century
Flaring stars
The flying horse of autumn
Cosmic fireworks
The royal greenwich observatory - 1675-1998
Timekeeping by starlight
Is there anybody out there?
Looking for trouble
As stars grow old
Seeing red
The summer sky
Capturing the sun
When the moon hides the sun
Countdown to the eclipse
The eclipse from cornwall
Autumn skies
There's no escape
A night to remember
A telescope for christmas
Millennium astronomy
A glimpse of a new world
Two of a kind
X-ray vision
A massing of planets
The moon in focus
Dr. caldwell's catalogue
Back to basics
Back to basics - into deep space
Wimps and machos
The darkness of the universe
Worlds apart
An astronaut's view
Genesis - earth and moon
Cassini: next stop saturn
A new view of mars
Pictures from the red planet
Meet the neighbours
Eye spy...
Our star
Crash and burn
Great balls of fire
Evolving universe: beginnings
Evolving universe: modern views
The lion's storm
The star of bethlehem
The signature for life
Galactic whirlpools
A tale of two bears
Twelve men on the moon
Forty-five years of star-gazing
Southern eyes
The birth and death of the universe
Stars in your eyes
Apocalyptic asteroid
The long wave
Picture perfect
Radio revolution
A royal celebration
Hot stuff
Astro art
The hidden universe
Life on mars
The shadow
Highland ring
Space scouts
Mars: the next frontier
Out of the dark ages
Smart way to the moon
Jupiter and galileo
Cosmic wanderers
Music of the spheres
Roving on mars
Cosmic vision
Digging for dark matter
Star birth
Transit of venus
Moons of saturn
Cassini at saturn
Roboscope
Planet quest
Star death
Wide eyed
Lord of the rings
Unveiling titan
Strangers in the night
Star party
Eye on the universe
The shocking sun
Deep impact
Fallout from deep impact
The search for life
A journey through space and time
Mapping the universe
The planets
Mars and the ring of fire
Celestial zoo
Journey to the edge
On top of the world
Mapping the moon
The loveliest planet
A spin around the sun
Turkish delight
Glorious galaxies
Bangs in the night
Wandering giants
Return to the red planet
The sun and moon
Autumn sky
The evil twin
The sounds of stars
Spaceman
Martian adventures
Stunning saturn
Time lord - 50th anniversary
50th anniversary - birthday party
Home from home
Sting in the tail
Robonet
Black holes and black magic
Jodrell bank at 50
The grand collision
Meteor mania
Sputniks children
Last man on the moon
Cosmic debris
Messenger to mercury
Return to the moon
The sun revealed
We just don't know
Battle of the giants
Rise of the phoenix
Double vision
Galaxy zoo
Astral autumn
Big bangs
Other worlds
Light fantastic
The merry dancers
The fountains of enceladus
Herschel in the red
Close encounters
Neighbourhood watch
Apollo 11: a night to remember
The apollo miracle
Coronas of the sun
Jupiter rising
The great observatories
Lunar impact
Exploring mars
The winter sky
Episode 15
Episode 16
Twinkle twinkle
The spirit of mars
Life
The sun in splendour
Ring world
Star birth
The universe from atlantis
Monster star
Events on jupiter
Light echoes
Ghostly travellers
The great bear
Volcanoes of the solar system
Orion the hunter
700 not out
Double star party
Storm chasing
Cygnus the swan
The stars indoors
Dawn at vesta
Final frontier
Pegasus and andromeda
Curious about mars
Outer limits
Other solar systems
Age of the infrared
Citizen astronomy
Warp factor 55
Moore's marathon
Juice
Venus and the midnight sun
Home-grown observatories
Curiosity at mars
Moore winter marathon
The story of stuff
Mercury and the moon
Reaching for the stars
The sun king
Moore winter marathon results
They fall to earth
Stunning saturn
Lives of the stars
Solstice
Exploring mars
Fatal attraction
Space surgery special
Moore moon marathon
Comet chasing
Jupiter: weather and moons
Sounds of the universe
Mysterious mars
How gravity shapes the universe
Impacts
The brightest star
How to catch a comet
The hunt for et
Ice giants
Rosetta: a sky at night special
The pillars of creation
The billion pixel camera
What have ufos done for us?
Hubble: the five greatest images of the cosmos
Venus, earth's twin
Rosetta update - a comet's story
Pluto revealed
Cosmic blasts
Playing with a clockwork universe
Volcanoes of the solar system
Second earth?
The real star of bethlehem: a christmas special
Planet 9 from outer space
Five greatest images of the solar system
Stephen hawking on black holes
Mercury: the problem child of the solar system
Secrets of the whirlpool galaxy
Juno: mission to jupiter
Interstellar: the journey to proxima centauri
Goodbye rosetta: a sky at night special
Life on mars
Review of the year
Guide to the galaxy
Telescope takeover
60th anniversary special
Inside god's observatory
Into the dark zone
It came from outer space
Cassini - the gamechanger
Return to the moon?
In the blink of an eye
Wonders of the night sky
The invisible universe
The mystery of 'oumuamua
Mars: red and dead?
Gaia: a galactic revolution
Jupiter: up close and personal
Outback astronomy
Death star
Expedition asteroid
Space britannia
First rock from the sun
The flying telescope
Beyond pluto
Is cosmology in crisis?
Marsquake!
Supermassive black hole
Return to the moon
The moon, the mission and the bbc
Space mission special
Alien worlds
Question time
Rosetta: the comet's tale
Review of the year
A beginner's guide
Here comes the sun
Locked up but looking up
Different planet, different sky
Stars: a matter of life and death
Mars: planet of dreams
Life on venus
Beyond the visible
Life beyond venus
The state of astronomy
Pick of the year
Mars and meteorites
Mapping the milky way
Space boom britain
Et and the bbc
Exploring jupiter
Question time
The forgotten solar system
Telescopes through time
Review of the year
Dark skies
Exoplanets and antarctica
Destination moon
The astronomer royal at 80
The sky at day
The james webb road trip
Photographing the universe
Question time
The multiverse of mystery
The search for alien life
Will an asteroid destroy earth?
The uk space race
Is there anybody out there?
Black holes: searching for the unknown
The very large telescope
Question time special
The sky at night meets the infinite monkey cage
Space rock return
Hiding in starlight
Cosmic ghosts
Webb telescope - the story so far
Nicky, nasa and the next frontier
2075: our place in space
Question time special
Ancestral skies
Asteroid strike?
Secrets of the red planet
Greenwich: a journey through space and time
Exoplanets - strange new worlds
Queen of pulsars
The expanding universe
Brits in space
Space mysteries: the sky at night meets curious cases
NextFilm 2026