Maiden flight for NASA’s Moon rocket set for 2022

Artemis-1 is fully assembled and ready to go

Super-Jupiter’s satellite in the making

The young moon could be forming in the planet’s dusty disc

News in brief

A brief roundup of the latest astronomy news

Spongy rocks stop Bennu gathering dust

Study reveals the asteroid’s sponge-like porous texture

China lunar samples show young lava flows

The samples were returned to Earth in December 2020

First hints of an extra-galactic planet

The potential planet is thought to be around the size of Saturn

Lucy struggles to spread its solar panels

The asteroid-investigating spacecraft is still generating power as it heads towards Jupiter

What’s on

We pick the best live and virtual astronomy events and resources this month

Inside the Sky at Night

In November’s episode of The Sky at Night, Paul Eccleston looked for ward to the long awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

Eye on the sky: Twin Ring Bling

This beautiful new portrait shows the detail of a barred spiral galaxy with a rare double ring structure