The astronomical night sky over Edinburgh in August
A partial Solar eclipse, the Perseid meteor shower, a planetary parade anda selenelion Lunar eclipse grace our August…
Buck Moon lights up Devon and Cornwall skies
The July full Moon lit up the night skies across Devon and Cornwall on Tuesday night. It is…
NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess
a new visualization of Earth looks nothing like the Blue Marble seen from space. NASA has released a…
Which Countries Wait Longest For A Total Solar Eclipse?
This map of the world shows the paths of all total solar eclipses during the period 2019–2040. T.…
Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024 on its inaugural flight VA262. Europe’s newest heavy-lift…
A Black Hole Singularity May Be a 3D Surface Where General Relativity Goes to Die : ScienceAlert
What lies beyond a black hole‘s event horizon is a mystery. It’s the boundary that marks the distance…
Warning: Earth’s magnetic shield is weakening fast over the Atlantic and spreading
Warning: Earth’s magnetic shield is weakening fast over the Atlantic and spreading – Futura-Sciences July 28, 2026 3…
The full Buck Moon will be the most powerful of the year
As July comes to an end, we’re turning our eyes and minds to the skies in preparation for…
Space launch company investigates rocket ‘issue’ ahead of engine test plans
The company which hopes to launch a space rocket from the northernmost edge of the UK is investigating…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will hit the Moon in the coming days
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the Moon. In the coming days, the upper stage of a…
Vigorous turbulence driven by quasar-mode feedback in a cluster core
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)1 is the successor to the Hitomi X-ray observatory2, which ceased operations…
Cassini was deliberately flown into Saturn in September 2017 while still working perfectly, because the alternative was letting a dying spacecraft carrying Earth bacteria eventually drift into Enceladus, a moon with a liquid ocean and hydrothermal vents on its floor.
On 15 September 2017, Cassini entered Saturn’s atmosphere while eight of its instruments were still returning data. The…