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, […]
Known affectionately as The Pope’s astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno is a meteor and planetary scientist, and Curator at the Vatican Observatory, where he works as part of a team of 12 papal astronomers. The 60 […]
Astronomers using Chile’s array of radio telescopes known as ALMA, have observed tell-tale signs of stars forming closer to the black hole located 27,000 light-years away at our Galactic Centre, than ever seen before. Surrounding […]
Stargazers across the northern hemisphere are currently gearing up to witness the oldest recorded meteor shower in history, known as the Lyrid meteor shower. Chinese observations of this annual shower dates back 2,700 years, and […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has captured a rare astronomical event after its Integral space observatory witnessed either a small star or a big planet being consumed by a black hole located in galaxy NGC […]
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