This weekend and early next week sky watchers will be treated to one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year called the Leonids. Although the “streaky” meteors can be seen each year between […]
Thousands of UFO sightings are reported each year across Europe’s skies, but since Britain’s UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) shut down its UFO desk in 2009, France has become the continent’s only country still running […]
Halloween is celebrated by a number of countries each year on October 31st, with typical festive Halloween activities including trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, and telling scary stories. Ahead of this year’s “All Hallows’ Evening”, […]
Now in its sixth year, the annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest showcases some of the most spectacular images ever photographed from within our solar system, all the way into outer space. Each year […]
The tardigrade may be one of the smallest creatures on Earth (0.3 to 0.5 mm), but it also happens to be one of the most durable and can live in both boiling and freezing conditions, […]
For the first time ever an Earth-sized planet has been discovered orbiting the habitable zone of a sun within our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers are also claiming that there exists a high probability it […]
According to the latest data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), galaxy mergers may not be necessary in order to create supermassive black holes, but instead could have formed early in the universe’s […]
On January 15th, 2014, John Dobson, inventor of the inexpensive, simple to use Dobsonian telescope, passed away in Burbank, California, aged 98. In 1915, Dobson was born in Beijing, China, and after his parents moved […]
On January 5, 2014, the Earth passed between the sun and Jupiter (opposition) and attained its closest approach to the Earth for 2014 (391 million miles), meaning the coming month will be the best time […]
Astronomers have combined data from the USNO-B (US Naval Observatory) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey to painstakingly produce a new catalogue of the universe covering 35% of the northern sky, which includes 44 million stars […]
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