On April 27, the brightest gamma-ray burst ever witnessed was spotted by several satellites in the direction of the constellation Leo 3.8 billion light-years away The cosmic explosion, known as GRB 130427A, likely occurred after […]
As well as astronomy being the oldest known science, UK astronomy programme ‘The Sky At Night‘ also held the distinction of being the the world’s longest-running TV series with the same original presenter. However, the […]
Sir Patrick Moore CBE was an English astronomer who attained prominence as a writer, researcher, and presenter of ‘The Sky At Night,’ the world’s longest-running television series with the same original presenter. Now, however, Moore’s […]
Despite being diagnosed at the age of 21 with the debilitating motor neuron disease, which has left him almost entirely paralysed and able to communicate only through a speech generating device, the world-renowned English theoretical […]
Voyager 1 and its twin probe Voyager 2 were launched back in 1977 with their mission objective to explore the outer planets Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. After the Voyager program’s primary mission was completed […]
Astronomers using the Hubble Space telescope have discovered a 14th moon orbiting the planet Neptune, which was too small to be spotted by Voyager 2 when it completed its flyby in 1989. The new moon, […]
The number of asteroids and comets which pass close to our planet has now passed the 10,000 mark, after the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope on the Hawaiian Island of Maui added asteroid 2013 MZ5 to the list […]
After almost 60 years of diligently recording reports of UFOs and flying saucers, Britain’s UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) eventually decided to shut down its UFO desk and hotline in 2009, concluding that the £44,000 […]
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the most distant object in the night sky that can be see with the naked eye, as well as the nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. Now, scientists […]
Excitement is already beginning to mount as an ice ball the size of a mountain and dubbed the “comet of the century” steadily makes its way towards the inner solar system. If it lives up […]
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