Professor Mark Sims on the discovery that Beagle 2 made it to the surface

The first images from China’s Zhurong Mars rover show the spacecraft is in good shape after landing on the red planet.

We may be losing Jupiter in the west at dusk, but two other planets are well placed in the late evening. Skywatchers in the UK and Western Europe should look low in the southern sky around 12am local time on 17, 18 and 19 June to see the waxing gibbous Moon in the vicinity of planets Mars and Saturn, plus first-magnitude star Antares in the constellation of Scorpius.

Launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been delayed to 30 July at the earliest after a series of processing snags.