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 […]
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 […]
Orion the Hunter and other winter constellations, such as Canis Major, Canis Minor, Gemini, Auriga and Taurus, are beginning to sink below the horizon and by the end of May will disappear until late autumn. […]
A US man and his wife got quite a surprise Friday night, when they heard a loud bang coming from the roof of his house in Wolcott, Connecticut. Initially, Larry Beck thought a rafter had […]
The Republic of Khakassia is located in south-central Siberia and is an archaeological mecca replete with megalithic stone monuments, rock engravings and ancient burial mounds dating back to the pre-agricultural Upper Palaeolithic period (50,000 to […]
After four years in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Herschel Space Observatory is swiftly approaching its final few weeks of operation, exactly as forecast at the start of its mission. Back in 2009, […]
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