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Look up! Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Professor Chris Lintott present the iconic, inspirational look at cutting-edge space science and the incredible universe all around us.

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Jodrell Bank: Tuning Into the Universe
Tuning Into the Universe
The team explore the remarkable story of Jodrell Bank Observatory and its towering Lovell Telescope, which scientists have used to listen to the cosmos for almost 70 years.
Your Time
Mon 11 May · 21:00
UK
Mon 11 May · 21:00
Channel
BBC Four
Upcoming Release
Episode
Jodrell Bank: Tuning Into the Universe
Tuning Into the Universe
The team explore the remarkable story of Jodrell Bank Observatory and its towering Lovell Telescope, which scientists have used to listen to the cosmos for almost 70 years.
Time
Your Time
Mon 11 May · 21:00
UK
Mon 11 May · 21:00

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Episodes The Sky at Night Meets Curious Cases

Space Mysteries: The Sky at Night Meets Curious Cases

In a spectacular season finale, the team are joined by Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain in front of a live studio audience to answer viewers' burning queries about space.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 10 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for 11 months (until 10 Nov 2026)
Episodes Brits in Space

Brits in Space

The team delve into the world of astronaut training, discovering what it takes to become a European Space Agency astronaut. With special guest Helen Sharman.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 13 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for 10 months (until 13 Oct 2026)
Episodes The Expanding Universe

The Expanding Universe

The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new questions it raises about how the cosmos works.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 8 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for 9 months (until 08 Sep 2026)
Episodes Queen of Pulsars

Queen of Pulsars

The team delve into the enigmatic world of pulsars and hear the inspiring story of their discoverer, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, direct from the subject herself.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 11 Aug 2025
Availability: Available for 8 months (until 11 Aug 2026)
Episodes Exoplanets - Strange New Worlds

Exoplanets - Strange New Worlds

The team explore one of the newest areas of modern astronomy, the search for exoplanets, the distant worlds that orbit stars beyond our own solar system.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 14 Jul 2025
Availability: Available for 7 months (until 14 Jul 2026)
Episodes A Journey Through Space and Time

Greenwich: A Journey Through Space and Time

The team celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, recreating history at a special dinner party, where they are joined by a glittering line-up of science communicators.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 9:50pm 9 Jun 2025
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 09 Jun 2026)
Episodes Secrets of the Red Planet

Secrets of the Red Planet

The team explore what the latest research is revealing about Mars. Could life have once thrived there? And will a return trip to our neighbouring planet ever be possible?
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 12 May 2025
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 12 May 2026)
Episodes Asteroid Strike?

Asteroid Strike?

The team explore one of the biggest stories in space news, the ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4. How well did the planet respond to this potential natural disaster?
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 10pm 14 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for 4 months (until 14 Apr 2026)
Episodes Unveiling Titan

Unveiling Titan

Patrick Moore talks to the lead scientist of the Huygens surface science package (SSP), Professor John Zarnecki, about the first results from the probe. (2005)
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 7 Feb 2005
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes Mission To Jupiter

Mission To Jupiter

The Galileo probe to Jupiter is now due to send back information on the giant planet. Professor Garry Hunt joins Patrick Moore for an update. (1995)
Duration: 19 mins First broadcast: 11 Dec 1995
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes Voyager's Last Planet

Neptune: Voyager's Last Planet

Voyager 2 has now passed Neptune, sending back remarkable new information about this distant planet. Patrick Moore and guests summarise what has been discovered. (1989)
Duration: 34 mins First broadcast: 10 Sep 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes Voyager To Uranus

Voyager To Uranus

Patrick Moore is joined by the leading NASA experts to give the latest news and pictures of what Voyager 2 has to tell us about this mysterious green world of Uranus. (1986)
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 4 Feb 1986
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes The Man Who Discovered A Planet

The Man Who Discovered A Planet

For this programme, Patrick Moore flew to Arizona to meet Professor Tombaugh and to ask him what he now thought about the curious planet he discovered half a century ago. (1980)
Duration: 23 mins First broadcast: 20 Mar 1980
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes Pioneer to Saturn

Pioneer to Saturn

Patrick Moore and Dr Garry Hunt discuss the American probe Pioneer II's attempt at surveying Saturn and its rings from close range. (1979)
Duration: 20 mins First broadcast: 22 Sep 1979
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes Mariner To Mars

The Sky at Night Special: Mariner To Mars

Patrick Moore takes a look at the close up pictures of Mars taken by the American Mars probe, Mariner 6. (1969)
Duration: 15 mins First broadcast: 3 Aug 1969
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)
Episodes The Moon

The Moon

First transmitted in 1960, Patrick Moore reviews the historic Soviet mission to launch a manned rocket into space.
Duration: 15 mins First broadcast: 27 Sep 1960
Availability: Available for over a year (until 31 Dec 2037)

The Sky at Night FAQs

When is The Sky at Night next on?

The next broadcast of The Sky at Night airs at Mon 11 May · 21:00(UK: Mon 11 May · 21:00) on BBC Four.

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