Astronomy is a wide ranging scientific field of study which also has the unusual ability to inspire many aspects of the arts, such as paintings, poems and music. The 11th century Bayeux Tapestry, for instance, […]
At the centre of each galaxy a supermassive black hole is believed to lurk with the mass equivalent to millions of individual suns. Astrophysicists believe these enormous black holes formed and grew at the same […]
Stories in which people have travelled through time and experienced the effects of time dilation have been around for centuries, with one of the earliest found in the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata, in which […]
A massive asteroid 1.7 miles (2.7kms) wide is set to make its closest approach to Earth in two hundred years on May 31st. However, before sparking any unnecessary panic it should be noted that asteroid […]
On May 23rd, Stargazers will be treated to a special astronomical event when the planets Venus, Jupiter and Mercury gather to form a triangle low in the western sky after sunset. This spectacular triple conjunctions […]
By 2023, the private spaceflight project named Mars One is hoping to land four people on Mars, who would then become pioneers in establishing a permanent human colony on the red planet. Every two years […]
The French Muslim Council has decided to overhaul nearly 1,400 years of Islamic tradition and rely on modern astronomy to determine the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. The country’s Muslim communities now […]
The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet came in 1992, followed by the first detection of an exoplanet orbiting a star in 1995. Improved observational techniques have since seen the rate of discoveries accelerate and […]
1: Copernicus First Suggested Earth Revolves Around Sun Polish astronomer Copernicus (1473-1543) was not the first person to suggest the Earth revolves around a stationary Sun, but he was the first to revive and elaborate […]
Virgin Galactic owns The Spaceship Company, whose aim is to take space tourists on trips to the edge of space by using a jet-powered mothership (Scaled Composites White Knight Two) to carry the SpaceShipTwo space […]
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