2 meteor showers are about to peak on the same night — what to know about the Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids
Two meteor showers will peak together overnight on Thursday, July 30, into Friday, July 31 — but skywatchers…
Photographer Captures Rare Shot of Venus and the ISS Together in One Frame
For a split-second, the ISS whizzes past Venus at an incredible speed. | Photo by AJ Smadi Photographer…
I’m not an astronaut, but I went to the International Space Station (sort of)
NEW YORK — I’m the kind of person who, every so often, falls into accidental daydreams about the…
Humanity’s first look at the surface of Mars shared on 50th anniversary of historic NASA landing — Space photo of the week
About 40 minutes after it landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander sent this…
Overnight Science News: The serendipitous discovery of a cosmic collision crater
Tonight’s edition focuses on easy reading science stories. There’s only one dire climate chaos wildfire report and it’s…
Exact date to see solar eclipse in Liverpool as health warning issued
2090 will be the next total solar eclipse visible from the UK The partial solar eclipse as seen…
Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For Aug. 12’s Solar Eclipse
Topline It’s time to find your old solar eclipse glasses from the “Great North American Eclipse” on April…
Nasa boss from Hitchin praises rise of women in science
While she has noticed more women studying Stem subjects, figures from Stem Women, external suggest the number working…
Total Solar Eclipse ‘Map Of Nope’ Meme Is A Must-See Before August
Topline A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe, but only to a narrow path across parts of…
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This…
Hexham to see partial solar eclipse from Sele Park
A partial solar eclipse will be visible from Northumberland in August, with a free public viewing hosted at…
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the South Pole itself into a telescope that looks down through the entire planet to catch particles arriving from the other side of the sky
At the South Pole, the sky is not the only direction from which astronomy can be done. Buried…