17 April 2017
April 19th to be an exciting day for stargazers as an asteroid and a comet pass close to Earth
... or two nights. 2014-JO25 won't be the only visitor in our part of the Solar System on 19 April, as the PanSTARRS non-periodic comet will also by flying by that day at a distance of 175 million kilometres. Also known as the...
12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
... of astronomers led by the University of Arizona. Known as Kamo`oalewa, this sizeable space-rock was discovered by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii in 2016 and was aptly named from a word found in a Hawaiian creation chant that alludes...
03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
It seems the Universe is in a spin and has been since the beginning – a finding that goes against the current theory of how our cosmos formed. Earth is spinning, so are our neighbouring planets, in fact if you look around space, you'll see that a ...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
At the beginning of the 21st century it became obvious that using small-diameter (up to one metre) robotic telescopes in astronomy allowed for breakthroughs in observing non-stationary and short-lived events in the Universe. With the help of robotic...
