Since the 1990’s, astronomers have discovered around two thousand planets located outside of our solar system, including gas giants, icy planets, and rocky worlds, most of which are orbiting outside of their parent star’s habitable […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmo) have announced a joint mission to the moon in 2020, whose primary goal will be to explore the South Pole region, and discover whether […]
At the end of September, NASA announced the discovery of occasional streaks of flowing salty water on the slopes of mountainsides, canyons and craters on the southern hemisphere of Mars. A week later, and the […]
This month a total eclipse of the sun will occur on Friday 20th March, which happens to coincide with the vernal equinox, a time of year symbolic of a seasonal change from winter to spring […]
An international team of astronomers have discovered a huge quasar 420 trillion times brighter than our sun around 12.8 billion light years away from Earth, placing its formation around 875 million years after the big […]
On 2nd March 2004, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft along with its robotic lander called Philae launched from Earth with the stated mission of successfully landing on the surface of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (named […]
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 […]
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