April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
... medium launcher capacity. When the first rocket roared into the skies above the Azores on a sunny day at the end of...operational, commercially focused launch site. GAMA-2 launches into clear skies. Stepping-stone to the stars As a private initiative,...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
..., however. Eric Christensen, the head of the Catalina Sky Survey, told New Scientist recently that "the popular conception...kill us all, and it's just not true." The Catalina Sky Survey is a NASA-funded project aimed at spotting potentially dangerous ...
09 July 2015
Discovery of a five-star solar system in Ursa Major highlights mystery of proto-stellar disk fragmentation
Do five suns in the sky sound like a bit too much? Not as far as a rare star...out on night for a large part of their ‘year’, only experiencing darkness (and a night sky) when the stars were on the same side of their world.” The formation of the actual...
28 August 2015
August skywatching hoax: why do people think Mars will look as big as the moon?
...of August 27th, rumours that “Mars is about to look as large as the moon in the night sky” inevitably begin to pop up. It was the same this week, and it may continue for a good ... the other planets and cool cosmic objects in the late summer sky.
01 November 2015
The business of stargazing: from observatory tours to ‘Discovery at Sea’
Human beings have been captivated by the night sky from the dawn of time. For some of us –... of the more ambitious ventures catering to the human longing for the night sky. Observatory tours are very much popular among those who don’t feel like ...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
...civilisations from another world point their telescopes at the night skies, would they be able to spot us amongst the plethora...Solar System from afar, by identifying parts of the distant sky from where various planets in our Solar System could be seen...
