Ezzy Pearson
Science journalist
Ezzy Pearson is the Features Editor of BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Her first book about the history of robotic planetary landers is out now from The History Press.
Recent articles by Ezzy Pearson
Mars was once a wet planet with a thick atmosphere, then 3 billion years ago both disappeared. Now, scientists may have finally found Mars’s missing atmosphere and water
Apollo 8 | The Christmas mission to the Moon
On Christmas Eve 1968, the first mission to the Moon changed how we view our home planet forever.
The planet that survived being ripped apart by its star
Where did Mars's atmosphere go?
Light can't escape their grasp, so how do scientists study black holes? We asked a theoretical physicist to find out
How do you study an object so dense that not even light can escape its gravitational pull?
Why is the November Moon called the Beaver Moon?
Webb is seeing black holes that are much bigger than expected. Could the answer be dark matter?
Buyer's guide | Star projectors and home planetariums
Star projectors turn any room into your own personal planetarium, making the walls into a glittering sea of stars.
First artificial meteor shower by DART impact mission
Have astronomers finally found the true cause of the Wow! signal?
“Aliens are more likely to see Comet A3 Tsuchinshan ATLAS again than Earth is!” – the comet’s orbit is 100,000s years long
CHARA observations of Polaris, the North Star
Asteroid S2 may have helped early Earth life to flourish
The astronaut wears Prada - why the fashion house is helping to design new spacesuits for moonwalkers
Spaceflight company Axiom Space has joined forces with fashion house Prada to create the next generation of spacesuit for NASA's moonwalkers
The origin of most meteorites on Earth has finally been discovered, helping astronomers to track the story of our Solar System
NASA's Europa Clipper launches on its way to study Jupiter's icy moon
The launch of Europa Clipper will see a new chapter in the exploration of this icy moon.
SpaceX's Starship plucked from the air by giant chopsticks, but why did they do it?
The booster of SpaceX's Starship was captured by a pair of giant chopsticks as part of the company's efforts to make the system reusable
Star caught in the act of swallowing a planet whole
A bloated star has been observed giving a dusty belch as it engulfs one of its orbiting planets
Watch the Polaris Dawn mission's spacewalk live
Watch the first ever commercial spacewalk live, as Commander Jared Isaacman and mission specialist Sarah Gillis prepare to conduct an EVA
Interview | ESA parastronaut John McFall
Has JWST solved the question of the Universe's expansion rate?
Moon's tenuous atmosphere is formed mostly by meteorite impacts, according to study of Apollo samples
Study shows that the thin exosphere is gas liberated by millennia of bombardment.
'Eccentric' planet has stretched-out orbit and could be on its way to becoming a scorching gas giant
From a stellar diamond to a squashed mammoth and one as old as the Universe, these are 8 of the weirdest stars we know of
Among the trillion trillion stars in the Universe, there are some real oddballs. Here are some of the weirdest stars astronomers have uncovered in the depths of space.