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 […]
Back in 1976 the Viking 1 mission captured the public eye after sending back photos of the Martian surface showing a “Face on Mars” located nearby to a formation of “Pyramids on Mars” in a […]
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 […]
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