Colin Stuart

Colin Stuart

Astronomy author and speaker

Colin Stuart is an award-winning astronomy author, speaker and tutor based in the UK. His popular science books have sold over 400,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 21 languages. The asteroid (15347) Colinstuart is named after him and he runs an online Astrophysics for Beginners course and a science writing course.

Latest articles by Colin Stuart

Orion module and the half illuminated moon on the right.

Artemis 1: The first step in returning astronauts to the moon

By Colin Stuart last updated

Reference Artemis 1 was the first stage of the Artemis program designed to return astronauts to the moon. The uncrewed mission successfully traveled to the moon and back.

Reference
The antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), set against the splendour of the Milky Way

Why do stars twinkle?

By Colin Stuart published

Stars appear to twinkle because the light from these distant objects passes through wobbly air in the atmosphere.

Stars
Quantum physics illustration

10 mind-boggling things you should know about quantum physics

By Colin Stuart, All About Space magazine last updated

From the multiverse to black holes, here’s your cheat sheet to the spooky side of the universe.

The Universe
Was Einstein wrong? Do we have to kill off the theory of space and time to make sense of the universe?

Was Einstein wrong? The case against space-time theory

By Colin Stuart published

Was Einstein wrong? His theory of space-time may have to be killed off if we want to better understand the universe.

The Universe
artists illustration wormhole

The hunt for wormholes: How scientists look for space-time tunnels

By Colin Stuart, All About Space magazine published

Usually confined to the pages of science fiction, astronomers are starting to think wormholes through space-time might be real after all.

Black Holes
Hawking at the University of Cambridge.

Stephen Hawking: Everything you need to know about the thesis that 'broke the Internet'

By Colin Stuart, All About Space magazine last updated

Your cheat sheet into the mind of one of the world’s greatest physicists.

The Universe
Artist impression of two black holes colliding and emitting gravitational waves.

Was there a bang at the end of the universe?

By All About Space magazine, Colin Stuart published

Space mysteries: How gravitational waves could explain how our universe began when another one ended.

The Universe